Perplexity in the AI press
6 stories about Perplexity, Wed, 19 Aug 2026 to Wed, 2 Sept 2026, summarized from the 4 AI newsletters that covered them.
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Pentagon AI official sells millions in AI company stock holdings
Emil Michael, the top Pentagon official setting military AI policy, sold his Perplexity shares for between $5 million and $25 million in June. Michael also sold shares in Perplexity's parent company earlier this year for up to $24 million, and separately profited at least $5 million from selling Brex stock in April.
The AlgorithmPerplexity releases open-source engine for Apple chip AI
Perplexity released Lily, software that runs AI models on Apple Silicon chips, the processors built into recent Macs and iPhones. Lily works with Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B, a large language model made by another company, and Perplexity claims it processes text faster than existing alternatives.
The NeuronPerplexity and Nvidia release local AI agent software
Perplexity and Nvidia jointly released Portable Computer, software that runs AI agents on Nvidia's DGX Spark and RTX hardware without charging per token. The software uses a 27-billion parameter model, a size category of AI system, and includes custom components designed by both companies to work efficiently together.
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Perplexity splits AI tasks between cloud and local computer to protect sensitive data
Perplexity, a chatbot and AI agent platform, released Hybrid Compute, which routes sensitive information to a smaller AI model running on your Mac instead of sending it to the cloud. A lawyer could use it to compare a confidential case against case law without uploading their client's files to Perplexity's servers, keeping that information entirely on their machine.
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Nvidia considers $30 billion investment in Perplexity search startup
Perplexity, a search engine that uses AI to answer questions, is in talks with Nvidia at a valuation above $30 billion, up from roughly $20 billion a year ago. Perplexity's annualized revenue has grown to over $750 million, tripled from $250 million, partly because its AI agent product consumes more computing tokens than basic chatbots.
The DecoderMozilla lets Firefox users disable all AI features with one toggle
Mozilla added a single setting that turns off every generative AI feature in Firefox, both existing and ones coming later. The toggle reflects Mozilla's belief that AI tools should be optional for users rather than built in as a default part of the browser.
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