This isn’t a spy network; rather, it’s a sophisticated orchestration system for agentic AI.
Perplexity has introduced its new Perplexity Computer service, capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks for human users. It achieves this by intelligently organizing necessary tasks and generating the specialized software agents needed to complete each process.
The company explains that the process starts with users articulating their desired outcome. Following this, Perplexity Computer “breaks it into tasks and subtasks, creating sub-agents for execution. The sub-agents might do web research, document generation, data processing, or API calls to your connected services.” This sophisticated approach means, for instance, that “A document is drafted by one agent while another gathers the data it needs.”
To accomplish diverse tasks, Perplexity Computer leverages a wide array of AI resources. According to the company, “Models are specializing. Each frontier model excels at different kinds of work, so a full workflow must have access to them all and deploy them intelligently.” Specifically, “Perplexity Computer runs Opus 4.6 for its core reasoning engine and orchestrates sub-agents with the best models for specific tasks: Gemini for deep research (creating sub-agents), Nano Banana for images, Veo 3.1 for video, Grok for speed in lightweight tasks, and ChatGPT 5.2 for long-context recall and wide search.”
Currently, Perplexity Computer is accessible to subscribers of the $200/month Perplexity Max plan. It will also soon extend its availability to users on the $325/month Enterprise Max plan.
