Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox running every Computer session

The Apache 2.0 release uses Firecracker microVMs. Perplexity says SPACE has powered all Computer sessions since July and handles millions of sandbox creations per day.

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Perplexity is publishing infrastructure it says already runs Computer at scale, aiming to use developer adoption and cloud partnerships to make its approach to agent containment a shared runtime.

Perplexity open-sources its agent sandbox after moving Computer onto it — SPACE runs agent code in Firecracker microVMs; Perplexity says it now powers every Computer session and has handled millions of sandbox creations per day.

Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind its Computer agent, on October 15th under the Apache 2.0 license. Perplexity says SPACE has powered every Computer session since July. The company described SPACE as the first component of a broader Agentic Runtime Platform. The release reflects Perplexity's bet on enforcing agent security at the runtime level.

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