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Perplexity Computer can now run fully local on your Mac.
Work with your native Mac apps and local files, and run tasks without sending sensitive data to the cloud. The model and the agent both run on your Mac.
Available now in the Perplexity Mac app.
New research: We developed JOLT, a post-training method where one model acts as both teacher and student, with the teacher trained to give feedback the student can use.
On MATH, it matched GRPO's accuracy with 6.5x fewer training tokens.
perplexity.ai/hub/blog/a-goo…
Self-distillation trains only the student. Its teacher can use the extra information to exploit shortcuts unavailable to the student.
JOLT also trains the teacher on outcome rewards from its own attempts, with a penalty when its predictions diverge from the student's.
Across math, coding, tool use, and terminal tasks, JOLT+ beat GRPO on all five benchmarks, including 9.9 points on AppWorld.
perplexity.ai/hub/blog/a-goo…
Local tasks use PPLX Pro, our post-trained version of Qwen 3.8, and don't consume Computer credits.
For more complex work, Hybrid can split the task between a cloud models and a local model on your Mac, keeping sensitive data private.
Read more:
perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perpl…
Available now to Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers on supported Apple silicon Macs. 36 GB of unified memory is recommended.
Download the Perplexity Mac app and set up a local model to get started.
perplexity.ai/hub/products/h…
Gemini 4 Argon sets a new record on WANDR.
It is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers.
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers, and in Agent API.
We're open sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in Perplexity Computer.
SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside the VM.
Available now under Apache 2.0: github.com/perplexityai/SPAC…
We tested SPACE by attacking it with frontier models. In Escaping SPACE: Part I, nine model configurations with root inside the VM made 108 escape attempts, and none reached the host.
Read the research: perplexity.ai/hub/blog/escap…
SPACE is the first component of Perplexity's Agentic Runtime Platform. We're open sourcing it to raise the security bar for agentic products.
Read the blog: perplexity.ai/hub/blog/open-…
Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers.
Both generate tokens faster, completing long Computer tasks sooner.
Choose Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast.
Our sandbox, SPACE, handles millions of executions a day with an error rate below 0.0002%.
We’re sharing how it uses cryptographic identity to keep requests tied to the right execution as sandboxes pause, resume, and move.
Read more: perplexity.ai/hub/blog/how-s…
Each request carries short-lived, signed proof of which execution may handle it and what access is allowed.
The receiving worker checks that identity against its own runtime record and rejects mismatches before forwarding.
Terminals and file watches can outlive their opening requests. Once a receiver installs the new execution identity, SPACE stops the old streams. Eligible operations can reconnect once, passing the identity checks again.
Read the article: perplexity.ai/hub/blog/how-s…
This is how we built the filesystem behind Perplexity Projects as a Git forge for agents.
Each agent works in its own sandbox and commits to a shared repository where people and other agents can build on its work across sessions.
Read more: perplexity.ai/hub/blog/build…
A single long-lived sandbox per project would need provisioning for peak load and months of uptime.
Instead, repositories live on S3-backed storage and each agent runs in its own ephemeral sandbox, so a crash loses only unsubmitted work.
