Perplexity AI Unveils ‘Perplexity Computer’ to Orchestrate Multiple AI Models

After months of silence, search AI startup Perplexity AI on February 25 announced the launch of Perplexity Computer, a system that unifies multiple frontier AI models into a single platform to execute complex, long-running workflows.

“Today we're introducing Perplexity Computer,” the company said in a blog post. It described the product as “a general-purpose digital worker that operates the same interfaces you do.”

According to Perplexity, the system breaks down a user’s requested outcome into tasks and subtasks, assigns them to sub-agents, and executes them asynchronously. These sub-agents can conduct web research, generate documents, process data, and make API calls to connected services.

Computer has the capability to research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project comprehensively. Overall, it can allocate tasks across 19 different models.

“Start by describing an outcome. Perplexity Computer breaks it into tasks and subtasks, creating sub-agents for execution,” the company said. “The coordination is automatic, and the work is asynchronous.”

Each task on Computer runs in an isolated compute environment with access to a filesystem, browser, and tool integrations. If the system encounters issues, it can generate additional sub-agents to address them. 

“When Computer runs into a problem, it creates sub-agents to solve it,” the company said.

The product is available to Perplexity Max subscribers. Perplexity Computer follows a usage-based pricing model, allowing users to select different AI models for different sub-agent tasks and manage token spending. Users can set spending caps and choose specific models depending on the requirements of each task.

Perplexity Max subscribers receive 10,000 credits per month as part of their subscription. In addition, the company is offering a one-time bonus of 20,000 credits. The bonus will be granted at launch for existing users and at signup for new users. These extra credits expire 30 days after they are granted.

Perplexity stated that the system is model-agnostic and designed to orchestrate multiple AI models within a single workflow. 

As of Feb. 25, 2026, Perplexity Computer uses Opus 4.6 as its core reasoning engine. It also integrates Gemini for research tasks, Nano Banana for image generation, Veo 3.1 for video tasks, Grok for lightweight operations, and ChatGPT 5.2 for long-context recall and search. Users can select specific models for subtasks, the company said.

Perplexity positioned the launch as part of its broader mission to “power the world's curiosity.” The company said it previously built Comet, described as an AI-native browser, and Comet Assistant, a personal AI agent. It added that persistent memory, task management, and deep research capabilities have been integrated into its platform.

“Chat interfaces have answers, while agents can do tasks,” the company said. “Perplexity Computer is a system that creates and executes entire workflows, capable of running for hours or even months.”