By Gregory Zuckerman
Publication Date: 2026-02-25 18:14:00
Perplexity has unveiled Computer, a long-running, multiagent “digital worker” designed to orchestrate tasks across a roster of top AI models—and it’s being positioned as a safer, more controllable take on the autonomous-agent idea popularized by OpenClaw. The promise is simple: delegate complex, months-long projects to an AI that can plan, coordinate, and deliver while containing risk.
What Computer Is And How It Operates Across Models
Computer acts as an orchestrator, not a single model. Perplexity says it draws on more than a dozen frontier systems, routing each subtask to the best tool for the job. Its core reasoning engine is described as Claude Opus 4.6, with Google’s Nano Banana for images, Veo 3.1 for video, Grok for lightweight chores, and GPT‑5.2 for long‑context queries and expansive web search.
In practice, users specify an outcome—say, “Build an app that surfaces live snow conditions across ski resorts”—and Computer decomposes that brief into a task graph. It then sequences research, data ingestion, UI design, code generation, testing, and documentation, farming each piece to the most capable model and running many in parallel.
Perplexity emphasizes control. Users can override the router, pinning sensitive subtasks to specific models, and can review or adjust intermediate plans. The system can run quietly in the background for weeks or months, surfacing checkpoints only when needed. It’s available now to Perplexity Max…
