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Oct 4, 2026Perplexity

Perplexity and AWS Strands flood the market with decision models on 1 October

On 1 October 2026 Perplexity launched pplx-decider-v1-27b and its Decisions API (about $0.04/M input tokens, free output) while AWS Strands Labs released open-source Strands Decider 2B for local agent routing, in the same wave as Cloudflare’s Clef.

Oct 1, 2026Perplexity

Perplexity launches Photon, a Rust retrieval engine cutting p99 latency to 65 ms

On 30 September 2026 MarkTechPost and technical coverage reported Photon, Perplexity’s new Rust retrieval and ranking engine, already serving production traffic. The company says it cut p99 latency from about 800 ms to 65 ms, and offers a Fast Search API mode at $1 per 1,000 requests.