What’s changed, why it matters to your work, and something useful to try next.
For anyone who spends time researching, drafting documents, or juggling multiple work tools, this widens what Perplexity's Computer assistant can do directly inside your existing files and apps. Useful if you want an AI to pull together research or draft content without switching between systems.
Useful if you want a recurring task — a scraper, a report generator, a scheduled check — running continuously in the background without hiring IT or learning server administration. Set it up once and it keeps running on its own.
Handy for anyone who builds client-facing decks or reports — sales, marketing, trainers — since slide visuals now come out sharper and more realistic with readable in-image text. Less time spent sourcing or fixing stock images and text overlays by hand.
Relevant to anyone who oversees a business process where AI agents are allowed to take action on your behalf. It gives you a durable record of what the agent did and why, plus a built-in checkpoint where a human has to approve a step before it goes ahead — so automation doesn't run unsupervised.
If you use ChatGPT for research-style tasks — pulling together information and getting a synthesised answer — this new flagship model should handle it noticeably better, and it's now the default, so no action is needed to benefit.
Useful if you create visuals for presentations, marketing or training materials — describe the image you want in plain language, and on paid plans a new "thinking" step now interprets your request more carefully before generating, so first attempts should match what you actually asked for more often.
If you or your team use the free ChatGPT plan in Australia, expect to start seeing ads appear in the app. If that's distracting for work use, upgrading to a paid tier (Plus or above) keeps the experience ad-free.
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