We’re open sourcing WANDR.

WANDR is an internal benchmark we built and used for building deep and wide research capabilities inside Perplexity Computer.

https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/wandr-benchmark-evaluating-research-agents-that-must-search-wide-and-deep

Introducing SPACE, the sandbox platform behind Perplexity Computer.

It creates isolated environments for code, files, and long-running agent sessions.

SPACE has handled 100% of Computer production traffic since June.

https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/making-space-secure-and-efficient-runtimes-for-long-running-agents

Claude Opus 5 is now available in Perplexity and Perplexity Computer.

We evaluated it against six other models on WANDR. It outperformed all but Fable 5, while being 57% cheaper.

We've added Kimi K3 to Perplexity and Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers.

Kimi K3 in Perplexity is hosted exclusively on U.S.-based servers.

Today we're launching Projects, an evolution of Spaces.

Projects are hubs for ongoing work in Computer. A single place to manage, create, and collaborate on tasks with a shared file system and persistent memory.

GPT 5.6 Terra and Luna are now live in Perplexity Computer.

Terra is the new default model for all Computer subagents, while Luna will serve as the primary model for scheduled automations.

Terra is also available as an orchestrator model in Computer.

Grok 4.6 is now available in Perplexity and Perplexity Computer.

On WANDR, it sits on the Pareto frontier of performance and efficiency, matching Fable 5 results at over 60% lower cost.

Computer now lets you set each connector tool to Allow, Always Ask, or Deny.

Approve one action or allow the tool for the rest of the thread. Recurring runs will follow that thread’s approvals.

Available now on web for all Computer users.

Computer now works in email.

Send, forward, or cc computer@perplexity.com on any thread.

Every email task runs as a normal session in Computer, viewable on web and mobile, with the same audit trail as any task in the app.

DeepSeek V4 Pro, hosted in the U.S., is now available in Perplexity Computer.

We evaluated it against other models on WANDR. It scored 0.359 at $0.75 per task, 62% cheaper than the next model on the cost-performance frontier.

Today we’re launching Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark.

Portable Computer is a fully local version of Perplexity Computer, where the entire runtime: orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, agent harness all run on your local hardware. No cloud dependency.

Brain is our self-improving memory system for Perplexity Computer. It compiles sessions, files, and sources into a structured knowledge wiki.

New evals build on our initial results, improving correctness by 9.3 points, currentness by 8.0, and recall by 8.9 with 15% fewer tokens.

GLM 5.3 is now available in Perplexity Computer.

Built for long-context, multimodal agent workloads, it beat GLM 5.2 on WANDR, our benchmark for large-scale, evidence-backed research.

Introducing hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer.

Computer can start a task in the cloud, then move to a local model that runs on your Mac. Use it for steps involving private files or sensitive data.

Available today in the Perplexity Mac app.

Claude Fable 5.1 is now available in Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers.

It ranked first in our August WANDR evaluation at 0.601 and $12.76 per task, a 21% higher score and 37% lower cost than Fable 5.

Today we’re open-sourcing Lily, the local inference engine we built for hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer.

Lily is specialized for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon, built so on-device compute doesn’t bottleneck Computer tasks.

Read more:
https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/optimizing-on-device-inference-for-apple-silicon

GPT-6 Astra is now available in Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers.

We evaluated GPT-6 Astra on WANDR. It scored 0.682 at $11.98 per task, the highest score of any model we tested.

GPT-6-Astra scored 13.5% higher than Fable 5.1 at 6.1% lower cost, and 27.0% higher than Opus 5 at 3.3% higher cost.

Websites created with Computer now have desktop and mobile previews.

Use the artifact side pane to switch between views, refresh the preview, edit the site, or leave a comment.

We're introducing Q2D-Web (Query2Doc-Web), a benchmark and public leaderboard for evaluating retrieval in agentic RAG systems.

Q2D-Web tests how embedding models perform on large-scale web search using agent-reformulated search queries.

Read more: https://pplx.ai/blog/tq2d-web

Perplexity has joined the Rust Foundation.

We believe in supporting the people who build reliable open-source software. By joining the Rust Foundation, our goal is to improve how people and agents build with Rust.

SPACE is built in Rust and powers the sandboxes behind Perplexity Computer and the Agent API sandbox tool.

Read more about how we built SPACE: https://pplx.ai/space-blog-tg

You can now tag coworkers in Computer sessions.

Use @ to mention and share a session with someone.

Available now on the web for all Computer users.