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Custom Skills in Computer, Model Council in Computer, and Voice Mode in Computer

Custom Skills in Computer

Teach Perplexity Computer how to handle any task once, and it remembers forever. Skills are reusable capabilities — step-by-step instructions, preferred formats, specific workflows — that Computer applies automatically whenever they're relevant. Create a custom skill for any task performed repeatedly, and Computer will follow it every time without re-explaining.

Try creating skills to:

  • Standardise recurring reports: "Create a skill that generates a weekly performance summary with KPIs in a table, key wins as bullet points, and a 3-sentence outlook — formatted for Slack."
  • Enforce a personal writing style: "Create a skill for drafting LinkedIn posts in my voice: concise, no jargon, always end with a question to drive engagement."
  • Automate research workflows: "Create a skill that takes a company name and produces a one-page competitive brief with funding history, product overview, and recent news."

Model Council in Computer

Run three frontier models at once and pick the best answer — now directly inside Computer. Model Council automatically runs GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro in parallel, then synthesises where they agree, disagree, and what each uniquely contributes. Choose your orchestrator model for full control over how results are combined. Available for Max subscribers.

Try using Model Council to:

  • Make high-stakes investment decisions: "Use Model Council to analyse whether TSLA is overvalued at current levels — compare bull and bear cases with supporting data from the latest earnings."
  • Stress-test a business plan: "Here's my pitch deck for an AI startup. Use Model Council to identify the three weakest assumptions, and how each model would challenge them."
  • Get a balanced perspective on complex topics: "Use Model Council to assess arguments for and against universal basic income, grounded in recent economic research."

Voice Mode in Computer

Talk to Computer and get things done. Voice Mode brings natural conversation to Perplexity Computer — describe a project, give feedback mid-task, or redirect on the fly, all without typing. Powered by the same voice technology in Comet, now available directly inside Computer on web.

Try talking to Computer to:

  • Brainstorm and build simultaneously: "Build me a landing page for a coffee subscription service — actually, make it minimalist with earth tones and add a pricing section."
  • Run financial analysis hands-free: "Pull NVDA's last four earnings transcripts and build me a chart comparing revenue growth quarter over quarter."
  • Iterate on a project in real time: "That looks good, but swap the bar chart for a line chart and add annotations for the earnings dates."

GPT-5.3-Codex Coding Subagent in Computer

Perplexity Computer now has access to GPT-5.3-Codex as a dedicated coding subagent, strengthening its ability to build, debug, and deploy software. When Computer encounters a complex coding task, it can automatically delegate to Codex — writing thousands of lines of production-quality code, fixing bugs using browser dev tools, and pushing directly to GitHub.

Try asking Computer to:

  • Build a full-stack app from scratch: "Create a personal finance tracker with a React frontend, Python backend, and live stock data from Perplexity Finance."
  • Automate a data pipeline: "Build a script that pulls my Google Analytics data daily, compares week-over-week trends, and emails me a summary every Monday."
  • Clone and improve an existing tool: "Recreate the core functionality of Duolingo's lesson flow as a web app, but focused on learning Japanese kanji."

GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Thinking

OpenAI's latest GPT-5.4 models are now available to all Pro and Max subscribers, delivering gains in reasoning, coding, and creative tasks. GPT-5.4 Thinking adds step-by-step reasoning for tackling more complex problems. Both models are available across Perplexity's web and mobile apps.