Perplexity Wants to Replace Your Computer With 19 AIs

You know that thing where you start a project in ChatGPT, realize you need an image, so you jump to another tool, then need code, so you open something else, then need research, so you’re back to square one? It’s like cooking dinner using a different kitchen for every ingredient.

Perplexity just launched something that’s trying to fix that. It’s called Perplexity Computer (try it here), and the pitch is simple: instead of one AI model doing everything okay, 19 specialized models work together, each handling what it does best.

Here’s how it works

You describe what you want done (say, “build me a competitor analysis dashboard”), and the system breaks your request into subtasks. A reasoning model plans the approach. A coding model writes the code. A research model pulls live data. An image model handles visuals. All running simultaneously, in the cloud, while you do other things. You can watch a series of examples here; they’re wild!

CEO Aravind Srinivas quoted Steve Jobs to frame the vision: “Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.” Well, now YOU play the orchestra. Get your conductor wand (stick? baton? giant rubber hammer for agent Whac-A-Mole?) ready!

Early demos are impressive:

1. One user one-shotted a live satellite tracking web app from a single…