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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