Perplexity API: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, and the finance_search Tool
Perplexity expanded the Sonar API with access to GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 models and added a new finance_search tool for real-time financial data.
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Perplexity expanded the Sonar API with access to GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 models and added a new finance_search tool for real-time financial data.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched the Meta Model API (public preview) with Muse Spark 1.1 — a multimodal agentic model with 1M token context. The model outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on MCP Atlas, JobBench, and HLE+tools. Priced at $1.25/$4.25 per MTok, $20 free.
Perplexity AI introduces a hybrid orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models based on data sensitivity and compute requirements — no manual configuration needed.
Notion 3.6 lets you @-mention Claude and Cursor directly from a team board as external agents. Agents can now read and write PPTX, XLSX, and DOCX files, and interactive HTML blocks can be embedded in pages.
Perplexity AI launches on Windows (July 2026) a hybrid inference orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models without user involvement. The system decides where each part of a task should execute.
Comet for iOS shipped its eighth round of improvements: one-tap phone-number actions (Call, FaceTime, Message, save to Contacts), a refined iPad sidebar, and Finance Deep Dive opening as a real browser tab.
Linear adds auto-generated changelogs to release pipelines, ships private sub-teams for Business/Enterprise, and rebuilt desktop tabs so each tab keeps its own navigation history.
Notion released team Worker sharing (July 9) with two access tiers and a dedicated Notion Agents iOS app (July 8), enabling mobile users to launch and monitor agents from anywhere while they run on Notion's servers.