Perplexity CEO unveils "Computer": millions of daily concurrent sandboxes, search as code
inductionheads · x · 2026-11-14
At the SGLang Summit, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas gave a 15-minute talk, "Building the Next Computer." GeekParkHQ's notes cover: the January Slack agent employees talked to more than each other (prompting a Marc Andreessen text: "that was basically us"); why he chose "Computer" over SuperAgent — the word once meant people who did math for astronomers; "search as code" exposing fetch/chunk/embed/retrieve via a Python SDK so agents can build their own pipelines; SPACE, an open-source platform now running millions of concurrent sandboxes daily, including red-team fixes; and local + cloud fine-tuned deployment. The talk sketches Perplexity's pivot from search engine to an agent computing platform.
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