Research

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ResearchSep 1, 2026Optimizing On-Device Inference for Apple SiliconA custom local engine that improves prefill and decode throughput.
  1. Sep 1, 2026PII-TRACE: Detecting Personal Data Before It Leaves the DeviceA 13-language benchmark for consistent PII detection across long-running conversations, paired with a compact 0.6B detector designed to run locally.
  2. Aug 19, 2026Brain: Agentic Memory as a Knowledge WikiA structured, traceable, self-improving Markdown filesystem, compiled offline and navigated on demand.
  3. Jul 29, 2026Securing agents across Perplexity’s client endpoints with NumbatNumbat is Perplexity’s open-source agent security suite for client endpoints. It detects, prevents, and investigates risky AI agent behavior on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

All publications

  1. Fast Embeddings on GPUs
  2. PII-TRACE: Detecting Personal Data Before It Leaves the Device
  3. Optimizing On-Device Inference for Apple Silicon
  4. A Local-First Agent for Private and Cost-Effective Knowledge Work
  5. Brain: Agentic Memory as a Knowledge Wiki
  6. Securing agents across Perplexity’s client endpoints with Numbat
  7. Making SPACE: Secure and efficient runtimes for long-running agents
  8. WANDR benchmark: Evaluating research agents that must search wide and deep
  9. How AI agents reshape knowledge work
  10. Rethinking search as code generation