Aravind Srinivas says Perplexity is starting to deploy Perplexity Computer on Vera, which he calls far better than x86. The stated goal is to own the sandboxes and optimize them for that silicon.
Perplexity is introducing Automations in Perplexity Computer for ongoing work. They can act on event-based triggers or a schedule, and work with memory, skills, and apps including Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Linear.
Perplexity has made Claude Opus 5.5 available as the Standard effort level in Perplexity Computer. On Perplexity’s WANDR benchmark, it scored 0.610 at $4.13 per task, slightly outperforming Claude Fable 5.1 while costing 67.6% less per task.
Perplexity said Perplexity Computer can now create videos using MiniMax H3 and ByteDance Seedance 2.5, producing finished video next to copy and creative in the same thread. It said the capability is available now for Pro and Max subscribers.
