Releases
8 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
September 20261
Sep 30, 2026
Contextual Embeddings model and benchmark releasedModel release
Perplexity released a contextual embedding method, model and benchmark for retrieving answers with their supporting context.
May 20261
May 22, 2026Bumblebee open-sourcedOpen weights
Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee, a security framework for agent systems.
March 20251
Mar 19, 2025Improved Sonar models and lower API pricingModel update
Perplexity improved Sonar, Sonar Pro and reasoning models while reducing API prices.
February 20252
Feb 18, 2025R1 1776 open weights releasedOpen weights
Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.
Feb 11, 2025New Sonar model released on CerebrasModel update
Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.
January 20251
Jan 29, 2025Sonar Reasoning models introducedModel release
Perplexity introduced Sonar Reasoning and Sonar Reasoning Pro for search-grounded analytical queries.
November 20231
Nov 29, 2023PPLX Online models releasedModel release
Perplexity introduced PPLX 7B Online and PPLX 70B Online, language models grounded with current web search.
October 20231
Oct 4, 2023PPLX 7B and 70B chat models releasedOpen weights
Perplexity released open-weight PPLX 7B Chat and PPLX 70B Chat models.