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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. Sep 4, 2026Fast Embeddings on GPUs
  2. Sep 1, 2026PII-TRACE: Detecting Personal Data Before It Leaves the Device
  3. Sep 1, 2026Optimizing On-Device Inference for Apple Silicon
  4. Aug 25, 2026A Local-First Agent for Private and Cost-Effective Knowledge Work
  5. Aug 19, 2026Brain: Agentic Memory as a Knowledge Wiki
  6. Jul 29, 2026Securing agents across Perplexity’s client endpoints with Numbat
  7. Jul 15, 2026Making SPACE: Secure and efficient runtimes for long-running agents
  8. Jul 14, 2026WANDR benchmark: Evaluating research agents that must search wide and deep
  9. Jun 8, 2026How AI agents reshape knowledge work
  10. Jun 1, 2026Rethinking search as code generation