Perplexity ships a GLM 5.2-based orchestrator that matches frontier scores at one-third the cost

rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-23

Perplexity says its new computer orchestrator is an adapted GLM 5.2 post-trained for the Computer harness.

It reportedly reaches near-frontier performance while costing about 0.344x of Opus, or roughly one-third the cost.
On Terminal-Bench 2.1, the setup scores 80, ahead of Opus 4.8 (76) and GPT-5.5 (78).
On WANDR, the advisor build scores 29 at 2.1x baseline cost, versus Opus 4.8 at 30 but 6.1x cost.
Perplexity says the model runs in the U.S. on Nvidia B200 GPUs and uses an internal advisor tool to escalate to stronger models only when needed.

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