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Two programmers, assisted by hundreds of AI agents, rewrote Perplexity AI's storage layer in two months, achieving 100x capability amplification and significant cost and latency improvements.
Perplexity announced CobbleDB, a key-value database built as a replacement for AWS DynamoDB, using two engineers and hundreds of AI agents, with potential annual savings of $100 million.
Perplexity launched Portable Computer on Windows RTX PCs, enabling local AI inference with an on-device agent harness, shifting the focus from inference cost to harness quality in the competitive landscape.
GPT-6 Astra in Codex is being used by Perplexity AI to test code end-to-end, with developers building test harnesses and mocking API responses for integration testing.
NVIDIA and Perplexity AI have partnered to bring AI processing to local desktops via the DGX Spark device, focusing on cost reduction and data privacy, with cloud offloading for advanced reasoning tasks.
Reddit's DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi and Perplexity AI over Google search scraping continues, with a judge allowing discovery despite dismissing some claims. The case highlights ongoing tensions between AI scraping and copyright law.
Shopify showcases using Perplexity AI's Computer feature to manage stores, conduct market research, generate product images, and design themes in parallel.
Perplexity has released its internal Agent Skills building handbook, proposing a new developer mindset distinct from traditional software engineering, emphasizing context management and implicit pattern matching principles for AI agents.