Perplexity

Perplexity AI crossed $450M in annualized recurring revenue this month — a 50% jump in a single month — and the company is pointing directly at its pivot to AI agent products as the driver. The growth story is a case study in what happens when an AI company stops selling subscriptions and starts selling outcomes. From Search to Agents: The Pivot That Worked Perplexity launched in 2022 as an AI-powered search engine — a cleaner, more direct alternative to traditional search with citations. It built a loyal user base, but the subscription model had limits. Users were paying for access to a tool, not for the completion of a task. ...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was supposed to be the universal connector for agentic AI — a standard way for agents to call tools without custom glue code. But at Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats dropped a significant signal: Perplexity is moving away from MCP internally, and the reason has major implications for anyone building production agentic systems. The Problem: 55,000 Tokens Before Your Agent Does Anything Yarats was direct about the technical issue. MCP tool definitions — the schema declarations that tell an agent what tools are available and how to call them — were consuming 55,000+ tokens before a single user message was processed. ...

Perplexity just announced something that sounds deceptively simple: an AI agent that lives on your Mac mini, runs 24 hours a day, and has access to your local files and applications. They’re calling it Personal Computer, and they unveiled it at their Ask 2026 developer conference. Waitlists opened immediately. This is more consequential than another AI announcement. Perplexity is making a direct architectural bet against the cloud-first model that dominates agentic AI today. ...

Perplexity just entered the agentic AI arena with a product that makes a bold claim: forget single-model assistants. Computer is a general-purpose digital worker that dynamically routes your tasks across 19 specialized AI models — picking the right tool for every micro-step of a complex workflow. It’s available now for Max plan subscribers via the web. And the design philosophy behind it is worth unpacking carefully, because it’s a direct architectural statement about where multi-agent AI is headed. ...

For the past two years, multi-agent AI has been a developer story. You needed to understand orchestration frameworks, API keys, context windows, and process management to make multiple agents work together on a task. The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25, 2026 marks the moment that story ends and a different one begins. Samsung confirmed ahead of the San Francisco event that Perplexity AI will be integrated into Galaxy AI for the S26 series — joining Bixby and Gemini as a natively accessible AI on the device. Perplexity gets its own wake phrase, and deep integrations with Samsung apps: Notes, Clock, Gallery, Reminder, Calendar. When a Galaxy S26 user asks a question, answers a message, or schedules an appointment, there are now three distinct AI systems that could be involved in handling that task, depending on what’s being asked and how. ...