Perplexity's Local Computer Harness Tops BrowseComp Benchmarks
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-08-25
Perplexity adapted its cloud-based Computer harness to a local-first version, orchestrated by a locally running 27B MoE model on DGX Spark. Thanks to progress in open-weight models, this fully local agent harness achieves superior results on benchmarks like BrowseComp compared to other local harnesses.
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