Perplexity open sources SPACE, the agent sandbox platform behind Computer

What happened

NVIDIA AI highlights Perplexity’s open sourcing of SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in Perplexity Computer. Perplexity says SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside the VM. Available now under Apache 2.0: https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE?tab=Apache-2.0-1-ov-file

Reported by 3 sources

The story so far

Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform it says runs every task in Perplexity Computer, making the code available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. The company said SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside that VM. Perplexity said SPACE uses cryptographic identity to keep requests tied to the correct execution as sandboxes pause, resume, and move. The company reported millions of executions a day with an error rate below 0.0002%. Aravind Srinivas said the platform serves Perplexity’s daily traffic and uses multiple machines to lower serving costs.

Keep reading

Trending now

1. 1DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017, Now Available on Ollama Cloud With US Hosting
2. 2Meta Removes Business Terms Language That Raised Website Scraping and AI Training Concerns
3. 3Google DeepMind Says Four Gemini 4 Argon Agents Beat Minecraft Without Human Help
4. 4Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon Globally, Expands Paid Access as Benchmark Results Vary