Perplexity News
GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna in Perplexity Computer
August 6, 2026
GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now live in Perplexity Computer. Terra is the new default model for all Computer subagents and is also available as an orchestrator model, while Luna serves as the primary model for scheduled automations.
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Voice Mode Isolates Your Voice
August 6, 2026
Perplexity's voice mode now isolates your voice from everything else. A new audio focus model filters out background noise, music, and other voices, so you can talk to Perplexity in a noisy environment like a crowded coffee shop. Live now for voice conversations and dictation on macOS and Windows for all Computer users.
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Introducing Projects
July 29, 2026
Perplexity launched 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.
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Claude Opus 5 in Perplexity + Computer
July 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5 is now available in Perplexity and Perplexity Computer. Perplexity evaluated it against six other models on WANDR. It outperformed all but Fable 5, while being 57% cheaper.
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Perplexity CLI: Web Search for Coding Agents
July 24, 2026
The Perplexity CLI is now available, giving coding agents the ability to search the web. Install it as an agent skill by pointing your agent at the pplx-cli SKILL.md on GitHub.
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Claude Fable 5 as Orchestrator
July 1, 2026
Claude Fable 5 is once again available in Perplexity as an orchestrator model.
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Computer for Counsel
June 24, 2026
Perplexity introduced Computer for Counsel — Computer now connects the research databases, document tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use daily, pulling citable sources from midpage, LegalZoom, Docusign, NetDocuments, and more. Available for Pro and Max subscribers.
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Brain in Computer
June 21, 2026
Introducing Brain in Computer — a continuously learning memory system. Every task on Computer plugs into a context graph built by Brain, making Computer more stateful with every run. Available as a research preview for all Perplexity Max subscribers.
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Nemotron 3 Ultra
June 6, 2026
Nemotron 3 Ultra is now available for Pro and Max subscribers on Perplexity and Computer — NVIDIA's new open model built for long-running agents.
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Main Street AI Accelerator
June 6, 2026
Perplexity launches the Main Street AI Accelerator with the U.S. SBA — committing $25M in Computer credits ($250 each for up to 100,000 eligible companies).
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Computer Windows
June 6, 2026
Personal Computer is coming to Windows — orchestrates across apps and files on your machine, rolling out first to paying Max and Enterprise Max subscribers.
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Hybrid Agentic Inference
June 6, 2026
Hybrid agentic inference is coming to Perplexity Computer — splits tasks between a local model on your machine and frontier models in the cloud.
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Search as Code
June 6, 2026
Introducing Search as Code — a new search architecture for AI agents that writes Python to call the search stack directly instead of looping through function calls.
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Microsoft Office Integration
June 6, 2026
Perplexity Computer is now available inside Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook — orchestrate across work in the side panel.
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Perplexity Computer Connects to Snowflake
May 15, 2026
Computer now connects to Snowflake. Run end-to-end work against live warehouse data and get answers with SQL, source tables, filters, and metrics. Build dashboards and automations for pipeline analysis, product usage, and customer segments.
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Hosting Qwen3 235B on Blackwell
May 12, 2026
Perplexity published research on serving Qwen3 235B MoE models on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks — disaggregated prefill/decode, tensor parallelism, and NVLink throughput wins. GB200 is a major step up over Hopper for high-throughput inference on large MoE models.
Personal Computer in Perplexity Mac App
May 8, 2026
Perplexity rolled out Personal Computer to all users in a new Mac app — runs tasks across local files, native apps, the web, and Perplexity servers.
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Finance Search in the Agent API
May 6, 2026
Perplexity introduced Finance Search in the Agent API — programmatic access to live financial data, filings, and market context for agentic workflows.
Computer for Professional Finance
May 6, 2026
Perplexity launched Computer for Professional Finance — 35 dedicated finance workflows on top of Computer.
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Perplexity Computer in Microsoft Teams
May 5, 2026
Perplexity Computer is now available inside Microsoft Teams. Run research, analysis, and document creation directly in your Teams workspace with the same capabilities as the standalone Computer.
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GPT-5.5 in Perplexity
April 25, 2026
GPT-5.5 is now available on Perplexity for Max subscribers, and is rolling out as the default orchestration model in Computer for both Pro and Max subscribers.
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Opus 4.7 Now Default in Perplexity
April 18, 2026
Claude Opus 4.7 is now the default orchestration model powering Computer. Also available for Max subscribers on web, iOS, and Android.
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Personal Computer
April 17, 2026
Perplexity releases Personal Computer — integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser. Rolling out to all Max subscribers and waitlist members.
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