Perplexity Adds Effort Controls That Auto-Select Models and Coordinate AI Agents
Summary
Perplexity now adds Light, Standard, High, and Ultra effort controls to Computer, automatically selecting models and reasoning depth while higher settings use a coordinating AI to delegate work across agents from different providers.
Key Points
- Perplexity rolls out effort controls in Computer, letting users select Light, Standard, High, or Ultra settings that automatically match model choice and reasoning depth to a task.
- Higher effort settings assign a coordinating model that plans work and delegates portions to supporting agents, which can use models from different providers.
- The controls are available on the web now and are coming to Android and iOS soon; users can still manually select a model and reasoning level through custom controls.