Perplexity introduced Hybrid Compute for its Mac app, letting a Perplexity Computer task run partly on frontier cloud models and partly on a local model, with an on-device PII cla…
On August 25, 2026, Perplexity introduced Portable Computer, an on-device version of its cloud-based Perplexity Computer agent that runs locally on desktops with Nvidia silicon. L…
On August 13, 2026, Perplexity launched its Agent API, a single programmable endpoint for web search, URL fetching, code execution, MCP connections, and finance and people search,…
Perplexity released its Personal Computer agent for Windows, an agentic desktop worker that accesses authorized local files and apps to create and edit Word and Excel documents, o…
On July 15, 2026, Perplexity launched SPACE, a secure sandbox that runs its Computer agent's tasks inside Firecracker microVMs with hardware-level isolation. Sessions can be pause…