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2 hours ago

Perplexity Adds One-Command API Setup Through Stripe Projects

The terminal flow puts credentials, prepaid credits and spending controls beside an application’s code. But teams connecting an existing Perplexity project stay on its existing billing path. Perplexity now lets developers set up an API project, generate a key and place it in an app’s environment file with one Stripe Projects command.

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Open release Infrastructure

6 hours ago

Perplexity Open-Sources Lily, a Qwen-Specific Mac Engine That Beats MLX-LM in Its Test

The Rust-and-Metal runtime gives developers a public, deployable version of Perplexity’s local inference stack. Its reported gains come from one Qwen model, one hardware family and a batch-one comparison on a high-memory M5 Max. Perplexity has open-sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer.

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Launch Tools

Yesterday

Perplexity Documents Versioned Agent API Profiles for Pinning Stable Configurations

The configuration layer packages a run’s model, instructions and tools under one ID. Teams can pin a known setup, while requests using latest automatically take newly uploaded versions. Perplexity has documented Profiles, a reusable and versioned configuration layer for its Agent API.

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Last week

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Benchmark Tools

Aug 28, 2026

Perplexity Search API Sweeps Artificial Analysis Test, but Medium Context Wins

The result gives developers a concrete retrieval-quality lead to test, while showing that sending an agent more page text is not automatically the best route to better answers. Perplexity ’s Search API occupied the top three positions in Artificial Analysis’ Search Index, with its medium-context setting scoring 80. Search APIs give an AI agent web results and extracted page material to reason over.

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Launch Tools

Aug 28, 2026

Perplexity’s GitHub-Slack Agent Uses One API Call and a One-Reply Guardrail

The useful shift is not autonomous code changes: it is a constrained investigation loop that can authenticate to one repository, trace a fix, and report back without widening its Slack or GitHub scope. The design turns a multi-step support task into one Agent API request, but deliberately stops short of modifying GitHub or broadcasting into a Slack channel. The SDK disables automatic retries.

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Launch Products

Aug 27, 2026

Perplexity Puts Open-Weight Models Behind One API, With OpenAI and Anthropic Formats

The compatibility layer lets developers retain familiar client interfaces while Perplexity takes on deployment routing; access is still limited to a private preview. Perplexity has put its Router API into private preview, offering one API key for open-weight models it hosts. Perplexity says any catalog model can be called through any of those schemas, regardless of its original provider.

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Launch Products

Aug 27, 2026

Perplexity Puts Computer Behind MCP, Opening 400+ Services to AI Clients

The endpoint turns Computer into an execution layer for compatible assistants, but clients must preserve task state and surface logins, questions and sensitive-action approvals. Perplexity is putting its Computer agent behind the Model Context Protocol, giving compatible AI assistants a way to hand off multi-step work rather than only return an answer.

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August 2026

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Launch Products

Aug 23, 2026

Perplexity’s Agent API Adds Managed Connectors for GitHub Code and PR Workflows

The preview feature moves service setup out of individual requests; paired with Sandbox, GitHub access can reach repository edits and pull requests, within the connected account’s permissions. Perplexity ’s Agent API now offers preview managed connectors for GitHub, Slack, Google Drive and Datadog. That does not grant an agent new repository rights.

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Enterprise adoption Business

Aug 22, 2026

Meta Is a Major Microsoft AI Customer—and a Potential Foundry Rival

The reported arrangement shows a major model developer can also be a major buyer of outside models. Microsoft gains high-volume demand now, while Meta’s planned API service could eventually overlap with the marketplace it uses. Meta has reportedly become one of Microsoft ’s largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually for access to AI models through Azure.

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