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Perplexity

An AI answer engine and Comet browser that search the web and cite sources.

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Last shipped
Oct 22, 2026
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Everything Perplexity shipped

October 2026

  1. New feature

    Perplexity added Graphify codebase visualization to Computer, for users who work with code.

  2. New feature

    Perplexity added a fully local mode for Computer on Mac, running tasks with native apps and files without internet or paid credits.

  3. New model

    Perplexity added Gemini 4 Argon to Perplexity search and Computer for Pro and Max subscribers.

  4. New feature

    Perplexity added the Reverse Engineer Anything skill to Computer, free through October 31 for up to 10,000 credits per user.

  5. New model

    Perplexity released open-weights decision models pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2, available in the Decisions API and on Hugging Face.

  6. New model

    Perplexity added NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for Pro and Max subscribers, and in its Agent API.

  7. Launch

    Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs each Perplexity Computer task in its own Firecracker microVM with controlled credentials.

  8. New feature

    Perplexity Computer can now pull real-time Polymarket data, such as probabilities and trading volume, when users tag Polymarket in a query.

  9. New model

    Perplexity added ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 to Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers, finishing long tasks sooner.

  10. New feature

    Perplexity rebuilt the filesystem behind Projects as a Git forge, letting AI agents commit work to a shared repository alongside people.

  11. New model

    Perplexity open-sourced pplx-embed-v2-late, two multi-vector embedding models for text and images, with weights available on Hugging Face.

  12. New feature

    Perplexity added a thumbnail rail to Computer for jumping straight to any slide, PDF page, or image.

  13. Pricing

    Perplexity cut Decision API pricing in half, to 2 cents per million input tokens.

  14. New feature

    Perplexity added tabs and separate session windows to its Mac app in version 26.37.1 for all Computer users.

  15. New feature

    Perplexity Computer now creates inline interactive visualizations with widgets and animations in the thread when users ask it to visualize a topic.

  16. Launch

    Perplexity open-sourced Lily, a local inference engine for Apple silicon, and PII-Tracer, an on-device classifier that decides when a task stays on your Mac.

  17. Availability

    Perplexity added a library of ready-made business skills to Computer for eligible U.S. American Express Small Business Card Members.

  18. New feature

    Perplexity added inline interactive charts and visualizations to Computer, including TradingView financial charts with candlesticks, volume and moving averages.

  19. Launch

    Perplexity launched the Decisions API, powered by its open-source pplx-decider-27b model, for developers at $0.04 per million input tokens with free output tokens.

September 2026

  1. New model

    Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model that encodes each document chunk with the whole document in view, available on Hugging Face.

  2. New feature

    Perplexity made Computer work by email, so anyone can forward or cc computer@perplexity.com without an account, with email tasks free for a limited time.

  3. New model

    Perplexity open-sourced pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model that sets a new best result on the ConTEB and context-bench benchmarks.

  4. New feature

    Perplexity added Profiles, Skills and managed connectors to its Agent API, so developers can reuse one saved agent setup across apps.

  5. New feature

    Perplexity added Automations to Computer, which run ongoing work on a schedule or in response to triggers, using memory, skills and apps like Slack and Gmail.

  6. New feature

    Perplexity made Wiley Online Library data available in Computer for all users at no extra cost, with no setup or subscription needed.

  7. Launch

    Perplexity launched Fast Search in the Perplexity Search API, built on a new retrieval service that returns 95% of results in 230 ms or less.

  8. Availability

    Perplexity made Portable Computer for Windows available on AMD Ryzen AI Max processors, running local AI agents on your own device.

  9. Launch

    Perplexity launched Fast Search in its Search API, built on a new Rust-based engine called Photon with under 250 millisecond p95 latency.

  10. New feature

    Perplexity added a DocSend connector to Computer for all users, letting it work with deal room materials.

  11. New model

    Perplexity added GPT-6 Sol to Perplexity and Computer, making it the default Light option in Computer's effort selector.

  12. New feature

    Perplexity added side chats to Computer, letting users ask read-only questions about a running task without interrupting it.

  13. New model

    Perplexity made GPT-6 Sol available to all users and set it as the orchestrator for Light effort tasks in Computer.

  14. New model

    Perplexity added MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.5 video generation to Computer for Pro and Max subscribers.

  15. New feature

    Perplexity let all Computer users connect apps directly from the Computer homepage composer on the web.

  16. New feature

    Perplexity added effort controls to Computer's model selector on web, with presets that set the orchestrator model and reasoning depth.

  17. Availability

    Perplexity Computer will now come pre-installed on the HP ZBook Ultra G3a, with more HP devices to follow.

  18. New feature

    Perplexity let all Computer users on web tag coworkers with @ to mention and share a session with them.

  19. Availability

    Perplexity made Portable Computer available on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, running agents and models locally on the PC.

  20. Availability

    Perplexity made its Search API available inside Hermes Agent, giving it real-time results from an index of more than 400 billion URLs.

  21. New feature

    Perplexity added desktop and mobile previews for websites built with Computer, with an artifact side pane to switch views, edit the site or comment.

  22. New model

    Perplexity added GPT-6 Astra to Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers, alongside the existing Fable model.

  23. Availability

    Perplexity made Portable Computer, its fully local version of Computer, available on Linux for NVIDIA RTX GPUs with 24GB of VRAM or more.

  24. Launch

    Perplexity open-sourced Lily, the local inference engine for Apple Silicon that powers hybrid compute in the Mac app.

  25. New feature

    Perplexity introduced hybrid compute for all Mac app users, letting Computer run local models for steps involving sensitive and private files.

  26. New model

    Perplexity now offers Fable in Computer as an orchestrator for high-stakes tasks, with GPT 5.6 (Terra) models still handling cost-efficient subagent work.

  27. New feature

    Perplexity added a Coinbase for Agents connector to Computer, letting users trade, analyze markets and run workflows with one click.

August 2026

  1. New model

    Perplexity added GLM 5.3 to Perplexity Computer for long-context, multimodal agent work.

  2. New feature

    Perplexity added Connectors to its Agent API, letting teams link GitHub, Slack, Google Drive and Datadog once for all API Group members.

  3. New feature

    Perplexity added a Public connector to Computer so members can link brokerage accounts to research and trade stocks, options, crypto, bonds and Treasuries.

  4. New feature

    Perplexity connected Computer to licensed data sources such as Dun & Bradstreet, Guidepoint and IBISWorld, available now to all users through Settings, Connectors.

  5. Launch

    Perplexity launched Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark, a fully local version of Computer that runs the whole agent runtime on local hardware.

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