Perplexity Release Notes

Deep Research with Opus 4.6

Perplexity Deep Research now runs on Opus 4.6, further improving the state-of-the-art results on internal and external benchmarks that we announced just last week (including the Deepmind Deep Research QA benchmark, shown below). Available now for Max users, and gradually rolling out to Pro users. Try using Deep Research to:

• Improve SEO strategy: What are the top trending topics in [industry] over the last 90 days? Show me the top-performing content pieces from competitors, the search intent behind trending keywords, and content gaps where competitors aren't publishing. Create a content calendar recommendation for the next quarter based on search volume trends and seasonal patterns.
• Compare products in detail: How does the Oura Ring Gen 3 compare to the Samsung Galaxy Ring and the new Ultrahuman Ring Air in terms of sleep tracking accuracy, HRV measurement reliability, battery life, and subscription costs?
• Health research: What is the evidence on peer support interventions for chronic pain management, including outcomes on opioid reduction, quality of life, healthcare utilization, and which delivery models work best in primary care settings?

Memory in Model Council

We've extended memory to work with Model Council. Perplexity can now pull in the relevant personalized context for each model, enabling you to get the best answer possible. Try it by asking Model Council to help with decisions such as:

• What’s a good training plan for my marathon in May?
• What are the top MBA programs I should think about?
• What retirement portfolio allocation strategies should I consider given current market?

Improved history search

Finding past threads is now easier—even when you don’t remember the exact words to search for or when the information is buried deep in a conversation. The results include text previews of the matching content, and clicking a thread takes you directly to the exact follow-up where that match appears.

Revamped stock graphs in answers on Android

Searching a stock (such as “nvidia stock”) in the Perplexity Android app now displays an inline stock chart with expanded information and revamped controls.

Kimi K2.5 Thinking

We recently added Kimi K2.5, a new state-of-the-art open source reasoning model from Moonshot AI. We host Kimi K2.5 on Perplexity’s own inference stack in the US, giving us tighter control over latency, reliability, and security for users.

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Upgraded Deep Research

We've upgraded Deep Research to achieve state-of-the-art performance on leading external benchmarks (such as Google DeepMind Deep Search QA and Scale AI Research Rubric), outperforming other deep research tools on accuracy and reliability. This upgrade pairs the best available models with Perplexity's proprietary search engine and sandbox infrastructure, with Deep Research now running on Opus 4.5 for Max and Pro users (and we'll upgrade to top reasoning models as they become available). Now for Max users, and rolling out to Pro in the coming days.

Read more about how we optimized Deep Research for real-world use, or try it for yourself by using Deep Research to conduct:

Academic research:
How did Japanese woodblock prints influence the compositional techniques and color palettes of French Impressionist painters (especially monet) between 1860-1890, and which specific artists showed the most direct stylistic borrowings?

Tech deep dive:
What methodologies do leading AI evaluation benchmarks like HLE, Browsecomp, and SimpleQA use to assess LLM capabilities, and what are their key limitations in predicting real-world production performance?

Legal research:
What are the legal requirements and procedural differences for obtaining a marriage license across Canadian provinces, and how do prenuptial agreement enforceability standards vary between Quebec's civil law system and common law jurisdictions?
See more use cases in this shared Space.

Introducing Model Council

Model Council enables you to run three frontier models at once, compare outputs, and get a more accurate, higher‑confidence answer. It’s available now on web only for Perplexity Max subscribers, and you can read more about it in our blog post.

Model Council works by running your query through three selected AI models in parallel and comparing the responses. A separate model then reviews and synthesizes the results, highlighting where they agree, disagree, and what each one found. You can view results side by side, get clear insight into the evidence and disagreements, and see what each model uniquely contributes to the final answer. It’s great for strategic analysis, such as:

• Investment research:
  Get balanced views on stocks, markets, or financial decisions where model bias could be costly.

• Complex decisions:
  Evaluate options for major purchases, career moves, or strategic choices with input from multiple reasoning approaches.

• Creative brainstorming:
  Surface ideas for gifts, travel plans, or content by drawing on different models' strengths.

• Verification:
  Cross-validate information when you need to be confident you're getting it right.

See more use cases in this shared Space.

Simplified input bar

Perplexity’s input bar has a new, streamlined look on web. In addition to a more focused experience for asking questions, the updated design provides:

• A “+” icon for easy access to uploading files, managing sources, and choosing modes
• An logo for each model to aid recognition
• The selected model named displayed in the input bar for visibility
• Deep research, Model council, Create files and apps (previously known as Labs), and Learn step by step, are now all accessible using the + menu.

Step by step learning

Learning mode is now available to everyone (not just students) via the “+” dropdown in Perplexity’s updated input bar on Web. When you select “Learn step by step”, answers provide an interactive education experience for any topic of interest, helping you:

• Understand topics step-by-step rather than get instant answers
• Understand and solve problems with guided questions and hints
• Get answers tailored to your level of knowledge

Improved memory engine

Perplexity now both creates richer memories and is more effective at recalling details from the past, now rolled out to Max and Pro users. Try it by asking for book recommendations or to recall details from a past conversation. Improvements include:

• Memory quality over quantity:
  Our tests found that the enhanced memory engine was able to recall important information in 95% of cases (up from 77% previously), while makes half as many memories. In other words, it is much more effective at remembering the right things.

• Higher quality answers:
  As memory quality gets sharper, answer quality follows. We found the enhanced memory engine significantly improved dimensions such as understanding time and reasoning through approximations.

Heatmap on Perplexity Finance

The Perplexity Finance homepage now includes a heatmap view of price movement among top stocks. Hover your mouse over any company’s name to get a live-updating synthesis of why the price is up or down. Available on desktop, mobile apps, and mobile web.

Comet Browser Agent now uses Opus 4.6

Max subscribers can now choose the model powering their browser agent, including Opus 4.6 (now the default model) and Sonnet 4.5. Opus 4.6 significantly increases Comet's reasoning ability, making the Comet Browser Agent great for complex tasks such as:

• Analyzing complex data patterns on a web dashboard
• Investigating your GitHub commit history and evaluate patterns over time
• Walking through a competitor’s onboarding flow and assess key differentiators and friction points

Expanded Enterprise security controls

Enterprise administrators can now further customize and secure the Perplexity Enterprise experience for their organizations:

• Granular feature access controls:
  Admins can configure access to specific features, including member access to the API, the visibility of the organization-wide Spaces list, and which AI models are available to members.

• Expanded audit logs:
  Audit logs now include streamed Perplexity-generated answers (containing the answer itself, model/mode, sources), in addition to the queries submitted by the user.

• Domain-based sign-up restrictions:
  Admins can restrict new sign-ups to verified domains. When this setting is enabled in the Identity tab, only users with email addresses from verified domains can join the organization.

• Organization usage guidelines:
  Admins can share usage guidelines with all members, such as approved use cases and data input restrictions. These guidelines are set in the organizational profile and will appear on every member’s homepage.

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Learn Mode for All

Learn Mode is now available to everyone (not just students) via the “+” dropdown in Perplexity’s updated input bar on Web. Learn Mode provides interactive education on any topic of interest, helping you:

• Understand topics step-by-step rather than instant answers
• Understand and solve problems with guided questions and hints
• Get answers tailored to your level of knowledge

Comet Browser Agent now uses Opus 4.5

The browser agent in Comet is now powered by Opus 4.5 by default, significantly increasing Comet's reasoning ability and improving how the agent handles complex tasks. Currently available for Perplexity Max subscribers. Try it by asking Comet to:

• Analyze complex data patterns on a web dashboard
• Investigate your GitHub commit history and evaluate patterns over time
• Walk through a competitor’s onboarding flow and assess key differentiators and friction points

Price movement timeline in Perplexity Finance

We’ve improved the timeline feature on Perplexity Finance asset pages, helping you get a quick understanding of the factors that drive an asset’s price up or down, including:

• After-hours price movement
• Expanded coverage across all types of asset pages: equity, crypto, index, commodity, ETF
• More languages beyond English
• More frequent explanations generated throughout the day

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Perplexity iPad App

We’ve elevated the Perplexity iPad app, redesigning and rewriting it to be optimized for iPadOS. It’s designed for real work, offering the same core features you find on desktop with native support for common iPad workflows such as multi tasking.

Research, work, and create in Perplexity alongside your other productivity apps like Notion and Slack using iPad Stage Manager.

Built for productivity, multitasking, and deep work, it’s perfect for students and workers who use the iPad as their primary work device.

Access all the core features of Perplexity like Labs, Deep Research, Finance, Spaces, Discover and more

ETF holdings in Perplexity Finance

You can now view the portfolio composition of ETFs by percentage weight, value, and number of shares using the new holdings tab on ETF pages in Perplexity Finance.

Quizzes and Flashcards on iOS

Take your study habits to the next level by generating quizzes and flashcards in the Perplexity iOS app. Try “Make me a geography trivia quiz” or “Make me flashcards using spelling bee vocabulary” to create tailored study aids.

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GPT-5.2 and Seedream 4.5

These new models are now available for Pro and Max subscribers:

GPT-5.2:

With deeper multi-step reasoning, GPT-5.2 offers strong performance on coding benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro, making it a good choice for complex analytical work, software engineering, and long-form reasoning.

Seedream 4.5:

This new image generation model from Bytedance provides more cinematic imagery, smarter instruction following, and stronger spatial understanding for crafting punchy imagery. It’s now available from the image generation model selector in account preferences.

Actionable answers

You can now navigate to websites directly from answers after researching tools, apps, and companies, helping you fluidly move from information gathering to action. Currently available on Web, iOS, and Comet in the US.
Try it by asking:

• what are the best talent marketplace sites for hiring freelancers?
• online courses for learning python
• best podcasting software

More chart improvements in Perplexity Finance

Perplexity Finance charts now provide even more advanced functionality to help you find the exact data visualization you’re looking for:

• Advanced mode.
• Tap in the upper right for a fullscreen graph view that lets you zoom in on specific time windows.
• Interval selector.
• Tap the three-dot menu in the toolbar to change the frequency of each tick on the graph.

Patents page

Researching patents? Start your next session from our new Patents page to explore patents by category, inventor, similarity, and more. You can even use the updated desktop sidebar to pin the Patents page for quick access.

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Perplexity memory and personalization

Perplexity now remembers your threads and interests to provide smarter, faster, and more personalized answers. It works across all models and search modes, picks up on personal preferences like favorite brands, hobbies, and active projects to provide personalized, and even allows you to continue prior conversations with full context weeks later. And in Comet, Perplexity not only remembers your past threads but can even pull context from open tabs to deliver assistance tailored to you and your task.

You have complete control over what Perplexity remembers. View, delete, or turn off saved memories at any time in your settings. Memories and search history are automatically disabled in incognito mode. Read our blog post to learn more, and see memory in action by asking Perplexity things like:

• What should my next book be?
• What gifts should I buy for my mom and brother for the holidays?
• Recommend new running shoes for me

Interface and navigation updates

We’ve honed Perplexity’s interface to feel more conversational while providing easier access to search results. Here’s what’s new:

• Chat messages: Your inputs are now displayed as a chat bubble in a simplified experience, supporting more natural back-and-forth exchanges across Perplexity and Comet Assistant.
• Universal tabs: You can now instantly access search results including Links, Images, Videos, Shopping, Places, and more directly from the top of each thread.
  These updates are live on web and coming soon to iOS and Android.

We’ve updated the sidebar menu on web to incorporate three popular requests:

• Library: Your Library of past threads is now at the top of the menu. Clicking opens your Library, while hovering reveals your bookmarks and an expanded list of recent conversations.
• Rename and delete: You can now rename and delete threads directly from the sidebar itself by clicking the ellipsis icon that appears for each recent thread.
• Customize: Control which shortcuts appear in the menu (like Finance, Academic, Shopping, and more) by selecting “Customize menu” from the “More” menu.

Shop with Perplexity

Instant Buy with PayPal

With Instant Buy you can now purchase products using PayPal directly from retailers without ever leaving the Perplexity app. And thanks to new memory enhancements shopping on Perplexity is now highly personalized, making it easier than ever to ask, shop, and pay. Read our blog post, and try shopping on Perplexity for:

• Best camera for my type of work?
• Best winter jacket if I live in San Francisco and take a ferry to work?
• Top quality chronograph watches under $500 with aviation vibe

Virtual Try On

unlocks a new way to preview products in Perplexity by enabling you to create a virtual avatar to see how apparel items would look on you. Just search for the apparel you’re considering, select it and tap “Try It On”. Once you’ve created your avatar you’ll be able to preview new outfits in seconds. Get started by searching for things like:

• Buck mason men’s jacket
• Women’s merino wool sweaters

Finance

Improved charts

We’ve supercharged the charts in Perplexity Finance charts with:

• Volume bars at the bottom of each chart
• Expanded tooltip on hover that shows Close, Open, High, Low, and Volume for every point
• Toggle to switch between area graph and candles
• “Compare” button to add time series for other assets to the graph (at the top of the chart)
• Simple moving average (via the new Indicators button at the top of the chart)
• Custom date range selector

Newswire feeds and watchlist briefing

Newswire feeds for equities and markets
Real-time newswire feeds now provide timely coverage of both individual equities and overall market developments. Tap a headline to dive into the full article, and to see related headlines.

Briefing for your entire watchlist
The new Watchlist tab features AI-generated market synthesis across your entire watchlist's recent movement. It pulls from realtime and historical price data, blended with qualitative insights from news around the web.

Perplexity x Cristiano Ronaldo

Yesterday we announced a global partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo, aligning his legacy of self-improvement with an AI answer engine built for people who expect the same from their tools. To mark the partnership, we launched a Cristiano Ronaldo hub: an interactive CR7 experience where fans can explore his career, see rare images, browse curated questions, relive iconic goals, and dig into the stories behind them. Explore the hub at perplexity.ai/ronaldo.

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Comet for Android

Comet, the world’s most powerful AI browser, is now available for Android.

• An AI assistant in your pocket: Browse like you would on Comet, with your personal AI assistant one tap away to help you ask more questions and take action on the tasks you assign it to handle. With Comet Assistant’s expanded reasoning, you can see exactly what actions your Comet Assistant is taking, and step in at any time.
• Chat with your tabs: People love Voice Mode in the Perplexity app. We’ve brought our voice recognition technology to Comet for Android, allowing you to chat with your Comet Assistant to find information across all your open tabs.
• Summarize your searches: One of the features people love most in Comet is its ability to work across tabs to synthesize information. Smart summarization on Comet for Android gives you the ability to summarize content across all your open tabs, not just the page you have open.
• Focus on what matters: Avoid spam and pop-up ads with a built-in ad blocker. Just like Comet on your desktop, you can whitelist the sites you trust.

Download Comet for Android now on the Google Play Store, and read our blog post to learn more. Comet is coming soon on iOS.

Build, iterate, and download slides, sheets, docs

Users can now build, iterate, and download assets like slides, sheets, and docs more easily than ever across all input modes — not just in Labs. Available on the web for Pro and Max subscribers. Let Perplexity help you create:

• Sheets, such as creating an excel file analysis of company financials
• Documents, like composing a research report or performing competitive analysis
• Slides, such as for preparing teaching materials for your class

New Models: Gemini 3 Pro, Kimi 2, Grok 4.1

This week we added three new models for Pro and Max subscribers:

• Kimi K2 Thinking, hosted by Perplexity in the US, excels at long-horizon workflows that require sustained multi-step reasoning, ideal for complex programming projects, data analysis, research automation, and code review
• Gemini 3 Pro, the latest advanced model from Google, excels at multimodal understanding, combining reasoning across text, images, video, and audio to generate interactive visualizations and functional apps from natural language prompts, ideal for UI/UX prototypes, video analysis, and spatial reasoning tasks
• Grok 4.1 from xAI scores high on emotional intelligence and creative writing benchmarks and is well suited for creative storytelling, marketing content, sentiment analysis

Nano Banana Pro for Max

Max subscribers can now generate high-resolution images with Nano Banana Pro, Google's latest model that supports up to 15 reference images and excels at rendering text and diagrams. Nano Banana Pro is now the default image generation model for Max. Give it a try by:

• Visualizing a room you’re redecorating by attaching photos of what it looks like now along with the new furnishings you’re considering
• Summarizing a long document as a diagram
• Specifying lat/long coordinates to generate a photo of

Schedule Tasks in Spaces

You can now schedule, organize, and collaborate on tasks within a Space. Tap the Tasks icon at the top of your space on web to schedule a recurring query to run daily, weekly, or monthly and choose how you want the update delivered to you, whether in-app, via email, and/or as a mobile notification. People have scheduled tasks in spaces to automate:

• Preparing a competitive intelligence report on competitor announcements on a weekly basis in a Space dedicated for competitive research
• Gathering event announcements about upcoming tech events across different forums to include in a monthly newsletter around tech events in Austin
• Generating a detailed stock report on the tickets and market segments you follow on a daily basis in a Space dedicated to help you manage your stock portfolio

Inline stock and crypto prices

Live price information for stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other financial assets now appears directly within answers on web. These indicators show live intraday price movements; tapping them opens the Perplexity Finance page for that asset. Coming soon to iOS and Android.

Revamped timeline module on finance pages

The Latest Price Movement timeline is now available on ETF and crypto asset pages within Perplexity Finance. We’ve also revamped the timeline to be fresher throughout the day for intra-day price movements, and to give a deeper look at each day’s price swings.

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Upgraded Comet Assistant

We launched major upgrades that significantly improve the performance and overall outcomes of the Comet Assistant. It can now handle more complex, multi-site workflows while working across multiple tabs in parallel. Our internal testing shows a 23% improvement in performance, so you can expect more accurate answers and more successful completions, even on long or multi-step jobs. Comet Assistant will now also ask for your approval before doing anything in your browser, remembering your preference throughout. Read out blog post for more details.

Privacy Snapshot on the Comet Homepage

Comet was designed with privacy and security at its core, and we're introducing new features that make it even easier to see and control privacy in Comet. These include a new Privacy Snapshot widget at the top of the homepage, making it easy to access and fine-tune privacy settings. Control which actions the assistant can and cannot perform on your behalf, manage ad and tacker blocking, and much more. See our blog post to learn more.

Open links in Comet, keep Assistant by your side

Opening links and viewing sources from a Perplexity answer now preserves your original thread in Comet Assistant sidebar. This helps you browse more efficiently without losing context, breaking your flow, or needing to open an endless number of tabs.

GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1 Thinking

OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1 Thinking models now available for Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers, providing more advanced reasoning and conversational style than their predecessors.

Faster, more accurate Library search

Instantly search the entire content of past conversations, including even the longest threads. Enhanced thread search provides swift, precise access to specific details from any part of previous exchanges, streamlining the process of finding exactly what’s needed. Now available across all platforms.

Flight Status

You can now check the status of flights on the go in the Perplexity iOS app. Flight status is also available on the Web, and coming soon to Android.

Football on Perplexity Sports

Perplexity Sports now supports both college football and pro football. Add a team to your watchlist to get notifications before and after games, or visit each league homepage (college, pro) for live scores, standings, odds, and news.

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Perplexity Patents

This week we launched Perplexity Patents, the world’s first AI patent research agent that makes IP intelligence accessible to everyone. Perplexity Patents extends our citation-first approach to patent search, allowing users to search for patents without complicated keyword searches. During the initial beta Patents will be free for all users, and Pro and Max subscribers will receive additional usage quotas and model configuration options. Try it by asking Perplexity, "Are there any patents on AI for language learning?"

Email Assistant

Pro Subscribers can now try Email Assistant for 14 days. Visit https://perplexity.ai/assistant to get started. Email Assistant is always private — drafting and labelling never logs your email content, and all emails sent or received by Assistant are deleted after two weeks.

Flight status

You can now look up your flight status on Perplexity to get live status updates, including departures, arrivals, delays, and gate changes. Simply search for your flight number to view real-time details — available now on web and coming soon to mobile.

Sports

Our new Sports homepage that has a roundup of each day’s sports news, plus links to all of the leagues supported on Perplexity Sports, which now includes 10 new leagues across Tennis (ATP Tour, WTA Tour), Golf (PGA Tour, DP World Tour), Cricket (ICC), and Soccer (Champions League, Bundesliga, EPL, La Liga, Ligue 1). Each features live scores, standings, stats, news, and odds, and a watchlist to get notifications before games, matches, races, or tournaments for your favorite teams and players.

You can access the Perplexity Sports homepage directly at perplexity.ai/sports or via the left-hand menu on the Perplexity website.

Perplexity Finance

Perplexity Finance now lets you track the trading activities and portfolios of over 600 United States politicians. Visit the new Politicians tab for a ledger of recent Congressional transactions, or visit the Holders tab from an asset page to see which politicians have this asset in their portfolio.

This feature is now available for free to all users in Beta, and is available on desktop, mobile apps, and mobile web.

Sora 2 Pro

Max subscribers can now generate 12 second videos with Sora 2 Pro, OpenAI’s new and highest-fidelity video generation model. Simply type a prompt into the input bar on web, iOS, or Android to get started. No model selection needed - Sora 2 Pro will be used automatically for all Max subscribers.

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Learn languages on iOS

Learn how to say words and phrases in any language with the help of our new full-screen language learning experience, now on iOS in addition to Web. Flip through flash cards with audio, pronunciation, and words shown in the context of common sentences. Get started with searches like phrases I should learn for my trip to japan.

Filters for Shopping & Travel

Shopping and Travel queries now include generative filters that adapt to your search—making it easier to explore, refine, and discover the perfect product or destination.

Live audio streaming for earnings calls

Perplexity Finance pages now support live audio streaming of earnings calls. From the Earnings section of any company page (example), navigate to the Transcript tab and press “Listen” to join live — or tap “Listen from here” on any section header to start audio playback at that moment of the call. Now available on both web and mobile.

Insider activity in Perplexity Finance

Perplexity Finance now shows insider stock activity. This information is in the “Holders” tab of US equity pages. You can see a roster of insiders, as well as a historical ledger of their activity. For example, here is Michael Dell’s $1B stock sale from last week. Now available on both web and mobile.

Answer questions about Perplexity

Questions about product features, subscription plans, or managing your Perplexity account can now be more thoroughly answered directly in Perplexity itself, including citations to official documentation where you can learn more.

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