Perplexity Photon search API rollout

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Description Perplexity’s Photon search API rollout covers the company’s move to faster, lower-cost agent search and related decision-model infrastructure. Overview Perplexity launched Fast Search for its Search API, powered by a new Rust-based engine named Photon. The service returns 95% of search results in 230 milliseconds or…

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Oct 1, 2026
Perplexity Open-Sources Decision Model That Beats Jev on Cost and Performance
- Perplexity's New Photon Engine Cuts Search API Task Costs by 68%26 days ago
- Perplexity Cuts Agent Search Costs 68% With Lowest Latency API26 days ago
- Perplexity Cuts Agent Search Costs 68% With New Rust Engine

Perplexity Cuts Search API Costs 68% With New Rust Engine26 days ago

Oct 7, 2026

Perplexity Open Sources 9B Parameter SOTA Embedding Model

Perplexity Open Sources 9B and 0.6B Embedding Models for OCR-Free Search13 days ago
Cohere Launches Embed 5 Models With Top ViDoRe V3 Scores21 days ago

Oct 16, 2026

Perplexity's New Decision Models Take No 2 Spot on HF Index

Perplexity Open Weights Model Beats Jev in Clinical Decisions12 days ago
Liquid AI Releases 2 Open Weight Decision Models with Nvidia13 days ago
Perplexity New v1.1 Decision Model Tops Hugging Face Index at $0.02 per Million Tokens14 days ago
vLLM Decision 3.0 and Mapika Decider Tie for #1 on Decision Index9 days ago

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Perplexity Open-Sources Decision Model That Beats Jev on Cost and Performance

Perplexity Open Sources 9B Parameter SOTA Embedding Model

Perplexity's New Decision Models Take No 2 Spot on HF Index

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