By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-02-28 09:43:00
Perplexity has launched Computer, a new AI tool that doesn’t just answer your questions—it actually does your work. Available to Perplexity Max subscribers ($200/month), Computer is essentially a digital worker that can handle complex, multi-step tasks on its own, running for hours or even months in the background.Think of it this way: instead of asking an AI chatbot to help you draft an email, you tell Computer to “research our top five competitors, compare their pricing, build a slide deck, and email it to the team.” It breaks that down into subtasks, assigns each one to the best AI model available, and delivers the finished product—without you hovering over it.
Perplexity’s AI tool doesn’t rely on just one AI model, it juggles 19
The biggest differentiator here is Computer’s multi-model approach. Rather than running everything through a single AI, it orchestrates 19 different models on the backend. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 handles the core reasoning and coding. Google’s Gemini takes over for deep research. Nano Banana generates images, Veo 3.1 does video, xAI’s Grok handles quick…
