Perplexity Max Debuts Multi-AI Agent Tool

Perplexity's new agent tool, "Perplexity Computer," aims to unify AI capabilities into a single cloud-based system, orchestrating 19 AI models to independently execute complex workflows. This tool can spin up sub-agents to tackle specific problems, gathering financial, legal, and statistical data to present results as finished websites or visualizations. Perplexity is adjusting its business model by moving away from advertising due to concerns about undermining user trust and answer accuracy, instead targeting professionals making "GDP moving decisions." The company emphasizes enterprise subscriptions and deep research, downplaying monthly active user counts. Perplexity believes in a multimodal future, routing questions across various LLMs and selecting the best one for each task, exemplified by their "court" feature that pits top AI models against each other to determine the best response.