By Michael Nuñez
Publication Date: 2026-03-10 16:00:00
Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to enterprise customers — a move that transforms the three-year-old startup from a consumer search disruptor into a direct competitor to Microsoft, Salesforce, and the legacy enterprise software stack that underpins corporate America.
The enterprise launch arrives barely two weeks after Computer debuted for consumers, where it triggered what the company describes as a viral moment: users on social media demonstrated the agent building Bloomberg Terminal-style financial dashboards, replacing six-figure marketing tool stacks in a single weekend, and automating workflows that previously required dedicated teams. Perplexity says more than 100 enterprise customers messaged the company over a single weekend demanding access.
“With no hyperbole, the introduction of Computer inside Perplexity was the single biggest productivity unlock in our entire history as a company,” Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity’s head of business and a board member at the investment bank Lazard, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. “There’s no other feature that we’ve ever built that has changed how we work as much as this one.”
Inside the orchestration engine that coordinates 20 AI models at once
At its core, Perplexity Computer is an orchestration engine. When a user describes an objective —…
