PERPLEXITY

2026-07

Sonar API Enhancements

July 5, 2026. Perplexity AI enhanced its Sonar API with additional developer capabilities and improved cost reporting.

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2026-07

Perplexity AI Releases WANDR Benchmark

July 19, 2026. Perplexity AI released WANDR (Wide ANd Deep Research), an open benchmark and evaluation harness for research agents, built around 500 realistic data-collection tasks for knowledge work.

2026-07

Perplexity AI Introduces Space Sandbox for Agents

July 15, 2026. Perplexity AI introduced Space, a new sandbox platform designed to provide stronger security for its AI agent, Computer, by housing processed data in a separate, secure area.

2026-07

Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Series Added to Perplexity Computer and Agent API

July 2026. Grok 4.5 became available as an orchestrator model in Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers, and the Perplexity Agent API added support for GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) and Grok 4.5 with first-party token pricing.

2026-07

Perplexity Computer — Hybrid Agentic Inference

July 2026. Perplexity Computer introduced hybrid agentic inference, allowing it to automatically split tasks between local on-device models for sensitive data and powerful cloud models for complex workloads.

2026-07

Perplexity Computer Updates (July 13)

July 13, 2026. Perplexity Computer received several updates, including self-improving memory (Brain), faster Opus 4.8 Fast mode, Claude Fable 5 orchestration, mid-task model switching, website publishing, and per-model usage analytics.

2026-07

Perplexity API Becomes Full-Stack, Model-Agnostic Platform

July 1, 2026. The Perplexity API evolved into a full-stack, model-agnostic platform, now offering Agent, Search, and Embeddings APIs, with a Sandbox API for code execution forthcoming.

2026-07

Perplexity Computer Integrated into Microsoft 365

July 2026. Perplexity Computer is now integrated directly into Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, expanding its enterprise distribution.

2026-06

Perplexity Computer for Counsel

June 24, 2026. Perplexity launched Computer for Counsel, an agentic AI system built for legal teams, available to Enterprise and Max subscribers.

2026-06

Perplexity Brain: Self-Improving AI Memory

June 19, 2026. Perplexity launched "Brain," a continuously learning context graph built into its Computer agent, offering self-improving memory across sessions, connectors, and files.

2026-06

Deep Research, Command Panel, and Enterprise Controls

June 19, 2026. Perplexity updated Deep Research within Computer, adding faster command access, forking, inline actions, analytics APIs, and custom credit limits, alongside new enterprise controls.

2026-06

Deep Research Integrated into Computer

June 11, 2026. Perplexity moved its Deep Research feature into Perplexity Computer, its multi-model orchestration system, enhancing accuracy, depth of analysis, and citation quality.

2026-05

Perplexity Computer Default Brain Switched to GPT-5.5

May 4, 2026. The default orchestration model for Perplexity Computer (Pro and Max subscribers) switched from Claude Opus 4.7 to GPT-5.5,