Perplexity replaces Spaces with persistent Projects
By Steven Van ·
Projects adds a shared file system and persistent memory for multi-session work in Perplexity Computer.
Perplexity launched Projects, positioned as an evolution of Spaces and built specifically as hubs for ongoing work inside Perplexity Computer, its agentic workspace product. The core idea is continuity: a single place to manage, create, and collaborate on tasks, backed by a shared file system and persistent memory.
What Spaces was missing
Spaces organized conversations and files into a shared context, but agentic work in Computer tends to span many sessions over days or weeks, researching a topic, drafting a document, revising based on feedback, handing pieces off to collaborators. Without persistent memory tied to that specific body of work, each session risked losing context that had to be re-established. Projects folds a shared file system and persistent memory directly into the hub, so returning to a project days later picks up where things left off rather than starting cold.
Why this matters for Computer specifically
Computer is Perplexity's agentic product, running longer, more autonomous tasks than a single chat exchange. Persistent memory is the piece that makes multi-session agentic work actually usable at a team or project level, an agent revisiting a project needs to know what's already been decided, what files already exist, and what the current state of the work is, not just the most recent prompt.
Fits a broader shift toward durable AI workspaces
Projects reflects a pattern showing up across AI tools generally: moving from ephemeral chat sessions toward durable, stateful workspaces that persist context the way a real project folder or shared drive would. For teams using Perplexity Computer for real ongoing work rather than one-off queries, that's the structural change that makes it usable as an actual workspace instead of a series of disconnected conversations.
Sources: Perplexity on X.