Perplexity just dropped something worth paying attention to.
Perplexity Computer isn't a chatbot. It's an AI worker that takes a goal, breaks it into tasks, spins up multiple sub-agents, and runs them in parallel until the work is done. Research, drafting, data processing, API calls. It uses different AI models for different parts of the job and routes each step to whatever model handles it best.
The name comes from the original definition of "computer" — a person who autonomously divided and completed complex calculations. Same idea, different era.
Still early, but this is what the shift from AI assistant to AI operator looks like in practice.
Who's already using Perplexity in their workflow?