Perplexity
Perplexity develops AI tools for search, browsing, research, content creation, organization, and workflow automation, including perplexity.ai, Comet, and Computer.
Computer Analytics Links Daily Usage Oversight to Enterprise Reporting
Perplexity’s Computer Analytics separates day-to-day oversight from reporting and planning: administrators can use a daily refreshed dashboard to track organization-wide credit use, top users, connectors, skills, projects, artifacts, and task duration. The company says enterprise customers can use its organization-scoped Analytics API to pull the same usage data into business-intelligence or finance systems, while individual users retain access only to their own activity.
Search Handles Answers; Computer Executes Connected Work
Perplexity Academy draws a practical line between its Search and Computer tools: Search is for questions where a cited answer is the finished product, while Computer is for work that must move across systems, produce an artifact, or run repeatedly. The company says Search can handle complex analysis—from document summaries to valuations—so long as the result is bounded and verifiable; Computer is intended to connect data and tools, build deliverables such as dashboards or reports, and send scheduled updates.
Perplexity Brings Computer Agent Workflows Into the Mac Desktop
Perplexity Academy presents Personal Computer as a Mac-based extension of Perplexity Computer, designed to let the system act on the files, apps, folders, browser tabs, and desktop context where users’ work already sits. The tutorial argues that the product’s significance is local access: users can start tasks from the Mac app, a floating desktop bar, voice mode, remote control, or Comet, while heavier processing remains on Perplexity’s servers. Its examples frame the Mac not as an endpoint for AI output, but as an operating surface for organizing folders, updating files, reviewing presentations, generating briefs, and running recurring background work.
Perplexity Computer Brings Agentic Workflows Into Microsoft Teams Threads
Perplexity’s Academy tutorial presents Computer for Microsoft Teams as an AI agent meant to run inside Teams conversations rather than in a separate Perplexity interface. The company argues that users can install Computer from the Teams marketplace, use it in direct messages for private or early-stage work, and tag it in shared channels when teammates need visibility or context. Its broader claim is that agentic workflows — research, analysis, dashboards, reports, presentations, apps and websites — can be initiated, clarified and revised in the same threads where teams already coordinate work.