Hey, reckon Perplexity just had a ripper March? They’re stacking on the smarts with multi-model teams, asset-spitting research, and connectors that plug right into your tools. Basically, it’s less about one AI mate and more about a squad that handles the tricky bits, whether you’re sussing out market reports or coding on the fly. Users can look forward to workflows that feel less like herding cats and more like a smooth surf.
Let’s dive into what shipped in the last couple of weeks. I pulled this straight from the changelog, no fluff.
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✅ Multimodality & Asset Generation in Deep Research
Deep Research now spits out presentations, spreadsheets, dashboards, and even websites from your prompts. It pulls multi-step reasoning across heaps of sources, then turns the lot into ready-to-use stuff, all in one go. No more bouncing between tools.[3][4]
For marketers, prompt ‘Create a presentation analysing the AI agent market’ and boom, you’ve got slides with fresh data for the team hui. Developers save hours syncing research into prototypes, like generating a dashboard for Shopify inventory trends. Analysts? Auto-summarise call transcripts into neat tables quicker than brewing a flat white. Researchers knock out reports without copy-pasting.
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✅ Comet iOS Launch
Comet hit iOS for all users this week, March 27. It’s Perplexity’s mobile agent, handling tasks on the go with the full suite of smarts.[4]
Content writers draft campaign briefs while waiting for the bus. Marketers check live competitor news during commutes. Developers debug code snippets between meetings. Basically, your phone’s now a pocket research beast, no laptop needed.
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✅ Bring Your Own Connector
Pro, Max, and Enterprise folks can hook Perplexity to any tool via Model Context Protocol. Drop in an MCP server URL, pick auth like OAuth or API key, and pull live data into chats or Computer workflows. Orgs can share them too, on top of 400+ prebuilts.[5]
Imagine syncing Notion docs for project briefs, or pulling GitHub issues for devs to triage. Marketers grab real-time Shopify sales data for briefs. Analysts connect custom CRMs to auto-generate insights. It’s a bit of a mission no more.
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✅ Perplexity API Platform
The API’s gone full-stack: Agent API for multi-step workflows, Search API for web-grounded retrieval, Embeddings API for scale, Sandbox coming soon. Model-agnostic, powers agents like those on Samsung devices.[5]
Devs ship a research agent in an arvo: ‘Take a company name, return competitive brief with funding and news.’ Ground chatbots in live sources. Index 100 million docs for semantic search. Sweet as for building without the usual hassle.
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Pop over to Perplexity.ai, give these a spin, and chuck your feedback their way. Subscribe to the changelog for the next wave of updates, yeah?
