Perplexity Computer moves onto institutional servers with Valarian
Perplexity and Valarian launched a deployment option that brings the Computer agent to customer-controlled clouds, on-premises servers and air-gapped networks.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- Computer can run in customer-controlled clouds, on-premises servers and air-gapped networks
- Valarian ACRA governs data, tool, credential and network permissions
- Open-weight models can operate on institutional infrastructure
- Deployments became available on October 20
What is changing?
Perplexity announced on October 20 that it partnered with sovereign-infrastructure company Valarian to run Computer inside institutions’ own servers and systems. The option covers customer-controlled clouds, physically owned servers and air-gapped networks with no live web connection.
Computer plans tasks, coordinates models and tools, and carries out multi-step workflows. Valarian’s ACRA platform limits access to data, tools, users, credentials and networks according to institution-defined permissions. Organizations can run open-weight models including Nemotron, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen on their own infrastructure.
Perplexity says the solution targets regulated sectors such as finance, government, legal services and healthcare, with deployments available from the announcement date. The provider’s security and compliance claims still require independent review and workload-specific testing.
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Source date: 20 October 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 20 Oct 2026, 15:11 (Istanbul, UTC+3).
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