What Happened
On February 25, 2026, Perplexity made Computer available to Max subscribers. Its dated release notes describe a general-purpose digital worker that creates and executes workflows; access for Enterprise and Pro users was still forthcoming.
Why It Matters
The release broadened Perplexity beyond finding and summarizing information. Users could delegate a sequence of research, browser actions, and artifact creation, making execution of work a product capability alongside search.
Technical Details
Computer supports persistent background tasks, recurring monitoring, parallel research, browser automation, and connections to services such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Calendar. It can produce reports, websites, and applications. Perplexity described workflows lasting hours or months; that duration is a vendor capability claim, not an independently measured reliability result.