If you have even a small budget for #ai - personally or with your business - check out Perplexity Computer.
It's an orchestrator of roughly 20 different AI models. It does such a good job of running agents in parallel if you give it a problem.
For my new business, I have to do some really boring research by looking at public databases. There are other tools you can use, such as one called Firecrawl, that theoretically should be able to do it better and cheaper, but it simply can't.
Perplexity Computer will use the Perplexity Sonar models to do the searching, but then it will use the Anthropic's Opus 4.8 model to do the thinking and the orchestration. It seems to oscillate between those two models, and then it will always use the cheaper Anthropic Sonnet model for basic things.
If you had just $20 a month, it's best to have Claude or OpenAI.
But let's say you were going to spend an additional $10, $15, or $20 a month, you can buy Perplexity Computer creidts. Perplexity Computer is going to speed up your learning curve if you watch what it does in real time and sit back with a cup of coffee or a beer and just watch it work. It basically teaches you how these things use different tools in different ways.
Anyway, just a thought.
...and the frontier models are called frontier models for a reason...
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6/5/2026, 1 engagement