Perplexity brings Claude Opus 5.5 to all Computer users as default Standard effort

AravSrinivas · x · 2026-09-23

Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas announced that Claude Opus 5.5 is now available to all Perplexity Computer users.

On the company's Wide-And-Deep-Research evals, it compares favorably to Fable 5.1 at a fraction of the cost, and will become the "Standard" effort orchestrator on Computer for all Pro and Max users.

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