At Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced a shift from Anthropic's MCP toward APIs and CLIs, citing high context usage and authentication friction, alongside the launch of their multi-model Agent API.
Perplexity Computer orchestrates 19 AI models to run complex multi-step tasks in the background - impressive research depth, punishing credit costs.
Zenity Labs found that a malicious calendar invite could hijack Perplexity's Comet browser into reading local files and exfiltrating their contents to an attacker-controlled server - no clicks required.
Perplexity launched Computer, a $200-per-month autonomous agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - staking the company's pivot from search engine to digital labor on infrastructure it rents from potential competitors.
Perplexity has evolved from an AI search experiment into a $9B company processing 500 million queries per month. We tested Pro, the API, and the new Sonar models to see if it truly beats Google at search.
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