JUST IN: Perplexity launched "Perplexity Computer" β and it might be the most complete AI agent system available right now.
Not a chatbot upgrade. Not a research tool with a new name.
A system that plans entire projects, delegates to specialist AI models, and runs autonomously for hours, days, or months (their words).
Here's what makes the architecture genuinely different:
β Opus 4.6 handles core reasoning and orchestration
β Gemini handles deep research (spawning its own sub-agents)
β Grok handles lightweight speed tasks
β Veo 3.1 handles video generation
β Nano Banana handles image creation
β ChatGPT 5.2 handles long-context recall and wide search
β You can override model choices per subtask
19 models total. Each task runs in an isolated environment with a real filesystem, real browser, and real tool integrations.
You describe an outcome. It breaks it into tasks and subtasks, creates sub-agents for each, and coordinates them automatically. When a sub-agent hits a problem, it spawns more sub-agents to solve it.
And it connects to your existing stack β GitHub, Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, Jira, Linear, Notion, Confluence, Ahrefs, Airtable, and more.
Critically, it doesn't just run once. It can run on a schedule. Reading your docs, checking your project boards, pulling from your CRM, and acting on what it finds. Market monitoring. Competitor tracking. Weekly reports with charts. Content pipelines. CRON jobs that actually execute.
Not "AI that helps you once." AI that runs in the background for days or months.
Think of it as managed OpenClaw β similar autonomous capability (scheduled tasks, multi-step workflows, tool integrations) but fully managed. No Mac Mini. No security config. No infrastructure to maintain.
I tested it with a complex prompt β a full stock trading simulator with what-if scenarios, correlation heatmaps, sentiment analysis, and a Bloomberg Terminal aesthetic.
Two prompts later: deployed to Netlify via GitHub, with working CRON jobs updating live data. I've started using it to analyze my portfolio.
But coding is just one lane. This thing researches, writes reports, generates datasets, creates videos, processes documents, and connects to your existing tools β all in one coordinated workflow.
The real shift: you don't choose a model anymore. You describe what you need. The system routes each piece of work to whichever model does it best β and spawns new agents when it hits a wall.
19 models, dynamic sub-agents, scheduled tasks, and your entire tool stack connected.
Thoughts?