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Perplexity SPACE Sandbox: 0 VM Escapes in 108 Red-Team Runs
Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker microVM sandbox behind Perplexity Computer: Rust 0.8.0, 0 escapes in 108 red-team runs, egress bypasses fixed.
Perplexity's 9B Contextual Embedder Beats voyage-context-4 by 14.4 Points
Perplexity releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, an open-weights 9B RAG embedder that scores 45.5% Answer Recall@10 and cuts storage 8× vs float32.
Perplexity's Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed Without a Separate Engine
Perplexity reuses its LLM prefill/decode kernels for embedding inference, with 512 tokens saturating a sub-1B model on Hopper and Blackwell hardware.
Lily Beats MLX-LM 1.35x on Decode: Perplexity's Rust+Metal Engine for Apple Silicon
Perplexity open-sources Lily, a Rust+Metal inference engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B that averages 1.23× prefill and 1.35× decode over MLX-LM on an M5 Max.
Perplexity Portable Computer: Full Agent Harness on DGX Spark, $0 Local Steps
Perplexity ships a full agentic harness on NVIDIA DGX Spark with zero per-token cost for local steps and OS-enforced sandboxing.