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Overview
Perplexity is an AI search and agent company competing with openai and anthropic on agentic search infrastructure. Known for Perplexity Computer (autonomous agent product) and the Agent API for developers.
Recent Developments
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2026-07-29: Ex-Comet engineer kevin-jiang launches polar-browser (recursive-intelligence) with $5.7M seed — knowledge-work agentic-browser positioning vs consumer Comet wave (2026-08-02-techcrunch-polar-5-7m-seed)
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2026-06-01: Introduced Search as Code (SaC) — models write Python to compose atomic search primitives instead of calling fixed APIs (2026-06-01-perplexity-search-as-code-agent-api)
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SaC default in Perplexity Computer; available via Agent API
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Claims 100% accuracy on 200-CVE benchmark with 85% fewer tokens; outperforms OpenAI/Anthropic on 4/5 benchmarks (self-reported)
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Three-layer architecture: model + secure sandbox + agentic-search-sdk