Jesse Dwyer

technically staff @Perplexity.
curious, overrated, chief comms.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

We're opening access to anyone (no Perplexity account needed), and we will run all tasks delegated via email for free for a limited time. Forward or CC [email protected] to get started, and the agent will complete the task in the background while keeping the email context.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

It's hard to name better writers than @CaitlinPacific. But even a mediocre editor should've talked her down from 180 em dashes.

This essay wants 68, max.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

AI can't write like this. Perfect lede.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

Kurt Vonnegut said the world is just builders and destroyers. I think people forget you can choose which.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

2025: @perplexity_ai shipped a new product or feature, on average, every 93 hours.

2026: Every 55.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

* so far. This week we did-

Portable Computer on Windows
HP x Autodesk (local AI with Revit😮)
CobbleDB
Search SDK cookbook
Effort in Computer

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

How fast you can do big stuff now is like nothing I've ever seen.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

We built a replacement for AWS DynamoDB, a key-value database for fast web content fetches. This was done with two engineers and hundreds of persistent Computer agents over two months. Migrating to our in-house database will save us up to a hundred million dollars yearly.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

2015: eat local
2020: shop local
2026: compute local

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

New research: Portable Computer is a local-first agent for private and cost-effective work.

With an on-device 27B model, our harness scores 82.6% on real knowledge work, beating open-source harnesses Pi and Hermes. Our post-trained PPLX 27B reaches 85.4%.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

Only partly true. You couldn’t lower US home prices by removing the guarantee on lending because too many adjacent industries have concretized higher costs into building codes. Fannie and Freddie made it undesirable to build affordable homes, but IBC and municipal NIMBYism made it illegal.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

here you can hire a board for any project now

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Model Council is now available inside Computer.

Run independent analysis across multiple frontier models, choose your analysis depth, and get a single cited report on where models agree, where they disagree, and what each found that others missed.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

@morganlinton @naval I think we're all still kids at heart, even government procurement officers.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

X survived every era of social media to become the only place left where real people share real ideas.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

True. I was writing for both Oracle and Sun c-suites during this time. Everyone thought cloud was a fad at first. They talked about it the way people today talk about orchestrating to local.

We’ve come full circle. The datacenter is coming back to your desktop.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

At its peak, Sun Microsystems was valued at 205B (394B if inflation adjusted). Sold software in enterprise servers. Got disrupted by Linux, x86, and commodity hardware. Ended up selling to Oracle for 7.4B, losing 96% of its value.

Open source models running on local hardware can have a similar impact given what’s going on.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

Perplexity is Mike Ross.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Introducing Computer for Counsel.

Computer now connects the research databases, document tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use every day. Pull citable sources from @midpageAI, @LegalZoom, @Docusign, @netdocuments, and more.

Available for all Pro and Max subscribers.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

@signulll is this a greek philosophy dad joke? 10/10

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

I actually have a degree in this. Can confirm, it is poetry.

[sim @simscircuit]

INCREDIBLE ARABIC COMMENTARY ON LEWIS HAMILTON'S FINAL LAP TO THE WIN.

THIS IS POETRY. READ THE SUBTITLES!!

[video & translation by @landorablee]

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

The datacenter was right there on your laptop the whole time.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Today we're announcing that hybrid agentic inference is coming to Perplexity Computer.

Computer can split tasks between a local model running on your machine and frontier models in the cloud. This keeps private data on your device and maximizes token efficiency.

Coming soon.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

no AI feature has ever expanded the stories I can tell as much as this one.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Computer now connects to Snowflake.

Run end-to-end work against live warehouse data and get answers with SQL, source tables, filters, and metrics.

It’s like a personal data science team, on call with accurate answers from live company data.

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

Accurate financial data for developers.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Finance Search is now available in the Perplexity Agent API.

In one tool call, developers can now retrieve licensed financial datasets, real-time market data, and cited web sources for agents that need current, verifiable financial answers.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

The perfect cube doesn’t exi—

[Jesse Dwyer @Publera]

@python_spaces dm sent