Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. Recent coverage centers on Perplexity Computer: a new voice mode rolling out to Pro and Max users on web and Mac apps, new skills in its marketplace including /teardown and the open-source /impeccable, and enterprise admin controls that set floor and ceiling on Effort levels. He also highlighted Particle, a new company optimizing open-weight models for token efficiency.
Try “Visualize….” in Computer and ask for whatever you want to learn visually. You will now get an inline viz with rich educative and interactive widgets and animations! Have fun! Best experienced on Standard or High effort. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Here are…
Our goal is to vertically integrate our agentic infrastructure: own our sandboxes, and optimize the sandbox for the best silicon. Vera is far better than x86. Look forward to sharing more soon as we begin to rollout deployment of Perplexity Computer on Vera.…
Your creativity is the limit in terms of what you can have Computer do for you. This is the kind of project that you can let an agent run for hours to come back with something great. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer built a 3D map of nearly 26,000 restauran…
a few open source contributions from perplexity recently: •pplx-decider-v1-27b: SoTA multimodal decision model. 85.7% average across 11 benchmarks, ahead of Jev. •pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: SoTA contextual embeddings, best on ConTEB and turbopuffer con…
We would love to hear how we can improve our developer platform! [Quoting @denis_bykov]: Hey, if you've tried any of @perplexity_ai APIs (Search, Agent, Embeddings, Decision, etc.) and were disappointed by anything, please DM me! Would be glad to learn what…
We’re open sourcing a state of the art multimodal Decision Model, pplx-decider-27b, and are offering it in a new Decisions API at 4 cents per million input tokens and free output tokens. We intend to bring down the price even further over the coming days. Enj…
We’re rolling out inline charts, diagrams, visualizations in Computer. Including contextual financial charts from @tradingview [Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Perplexity Computer now creates interactive charts and visualizations directly in your thread. For financi…
Seedance inside Computer is quite incredible for marketing and brand teams! [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Generate a commercial or brand video for your small business with Seedance 2.5 in Perplexity Computer. This commercial was created entirely inside Computer,…
Today we’re launching a library of Amex-curated, ready-to-use skills in Perplexity Computer to eligible U.S. @AmexBusiness Small Business Card Members. The skills are pre-built workflows that handle everyday business tasks, like forecasting cash flow or gener…
We’re open sourcing our state-of-the-art contextual embedding models, which perform best in turbopuffer’s context-bench. [Quoting @perplexity_ai]: We built a new way to train contextual embedding models, which encode each chunk of a document with the whole do…
We're opening access to anyone (no Perplexity account needed), and we will run all tasks delegated via email for free for a limited time. Forward or CC computer@perplexity.com to get started, and the agent will complete the task in the background while keepin…
The only step that remains is project this while wearing a pair of glasses. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer can create interactive 3D diagrams to help you visualize things like furniture assembly.
A company is like a car and it will soon feel like a self driving car with the right automations set up. You can do that now with Perplexity Computer. Figuring out the right automations requires a good level of human skill and agency. [Quoting @perplexity_ai]…
AI Safety is an engineering problem [Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Agent governance is an engineering problem. We’ve built safeguards into Perplexity’s infrastructure, harnesses, and tools, and put them to work across our products. Today we're sharing how we engin…
Multi-Agentic trading on Coinbase [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer can use models like Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Grok 4.7 in tandem to run an agentic portfolio on Coinbase, with automatic research and rebalancing. You can ask Computer to analyze sources s…
Perplexity Computer (in Standard Mode with Opus 5.5) is capable of designing and building an end-to-end, browser-based open-world game by renting its own GPUs, running headless Blender, doing procedural design, downloading assets online, and designing audio.…
We’re adding Profiles, Skills, and managed connectors to the Perplexity Agent API. A Profile is basically a saved agent where you configure model, instructions, tools, connectors, run settings, all under one versioned ID. A project admin sets it up once and e…
Consider joining our security team if you enjoy breaking systems and building guardrails (and using the frontier AI’s to help you do both). Kyle is awesome to work with and writes a lot of code himself! [Quoting @kpolley]: The best way to predict the future i…
An opportunity to do research on: continual learning: multi-agent parallel workers; and synthetic data, environments and evals that measure frontier capabilities. We make enough money to fund new research and want to make lasting contributions and share our r…
Our security team spent the last month trying to break SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs all of Perplexity Computer. We gave 9 models (Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.1 Pro, etc.) root access inside the VM; in some runs, the full sandbox source cod…
Stuff that I would have loved to have as a kid [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer can pull information from scientific sources like Wiley Online Library to create explainer videos. Wiley data is available to all Computer users at no extra cost, with no setup…
Safety is an engineering problem. We’re happy to be working together with NVIDIA on building safe and secure agent sandboxes with the right guardrails. And we intend to open source all of it. More on it soon. [Quoting @JensenHuang]: Today, with over 100 indus…
Matterport in a single prompt on Perplexity Computer (High Effort) [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer can turn a real estate listing into a 3D interactive website for visitors to explore a home.
Last few days, I ran 50-100 of my workflows (that earlier used Fable 5.1 as the orchestrator) on Opus 5.5 and found minimal differences. But there’s still the FOMO of not using the smarter model. What are some tasks people find Fable 5.1 to still be better at…
Play games on Computer with Astra as orchestrator. Works really well. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer use case: Create a browser game, then generate a sizzle reel trailer using in-game footage.
Nous Portal subscribers now get Perplexity Fast Search as their default search on Hermes Agent. Enjoy! [Quoting @perplexitydevs]: Fast Search is now the default search in Hermes Agent for Nous Portal subscribers. It’s built for agentic tasks, with single-sear…
Perplexity Computer becomes a secure, intelligent Deal Room with the @DocSend connector. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: The @DocSend connector is now live in Computer for all users. One use case: Ask Computer to maintain a living thesis based on the latest state o…
Perplexity has the fastest and most capable Search API, powered by our own Rust-based retrieval and ranking engine, Photon, achieving sub-250ms p95 latency while still ranking highly on relevance and accuracy benchmarks. Photon was built by a small team and h…
Welcome, @AMD, to the Perplexity Computer local AI ecosystem! [Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Portable Computer for Windows is now available on @AMD Ryzen AI Max Series processors. It makes it easy to run local AI agents that work with your connected apps and local…
Never bet against open weight models [Quoting @XiaomiMiMo]: Introducing Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 — Pro & Flash. Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. 🔹 Two omnimodal models, advancing through scaled reinforcement learning 🔹 Pro performs on par…
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