Releasesby GlyphNovember 2026
Perplexity added support for `google/gemini-4-carbon` to the Agent API with introductory pricing of $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens.
Also shipped Nov 10, 2026Perplexity in November 2026 →
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers a Web Search API
AWS launched the InvokeWebSearch API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling direct web search execution billed at $7 per 1,000 queries.
Flagship - Evaluate Flagship feature flags from Rust
Cloudflare released an official Rust SDK (`cloudflare-flagship`) for Flagship, enabling async Rust applications to evaluate feature flags via OpenFeature with remote or in-process local evaluation.
BigQuery generative AI functions support gemini-4-carbon
Google Cloud announced general availability for the gemini-4-carbon model across BigQuery generative AI functions.
Amazon OpenSearch Service announces managed cross-Region disaster recovery
AWS introduced managed cross-Region disaster recovery for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing continuous data replication with an RPO under one minute and RTO under 20 minutes.
Amazon Bedrock adds bedrock-runtime endpoint support for Daybreak models
AWS added support for OpenAI Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue cybersecurity models on Amazon Bedrock runtime endpoints via US and Global cross-Region inference profiles.
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 4 Carbon available in web app, mobile app, Workflow Builder, and AI developer tools
Google Cloud generally released Gemini 4 Carbon across Gemini Enterprise web and mobile apps, Workflow Builder, and AI developer tools with multi-region availability.
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November 2026
Perplexity added an ultra effort level option to its Agent API, designed for broad research and data-gathering tasks using Claude Opus 5.5, with support for background execution mode.
November 2026
Decisions API: URL fetching and page freshness Pass a page URL as state with mode: "web_grounding" to fetch its text before searching. The fetched text replaces the URL before search. The response returns the page in fetched_results and search evidence in search_results . Set max_staleness to the maximum page age in seconds since its last crawl.
November 2026
Analytics API: credit-usage response update For dataset=credit_usage , responses from /v1/analytics/computer/usage and /v2/analytics/computer/usage currently omit the Credit Source breakdown. Total credit usage and the Model breakdown remain available. If your integration expects a fixed set of breakdowns, update it to read the returned categories list.
October 2026
Perplexity updated effort levels in the Agent API, increasing maximum token limits, expanding search step maximums, and updating backend models.
October 2026
The Agent API has renamed the preset parameter to effort. This is a naming change only, and existing configurations remain functional.
October 2026
Tool approvals for MCP and connector calls Set require_approval on an mcp or connector tool to review calls before they run. A call that needs approval returns an mcp_approval_request item and does not run. To approve or deny it, send an mcp_approval_response with previous_response_id .
October 2026
Older models removed from the model docs; GPT-6 Astra and DeepSeek V4 Pro added The following models are no longer listed in the Agent API model docs, pricing calculator, or examples: Anthropic: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-7 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-5 , anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 ...
October 2026
Decisions API: pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 pplx-decider-v1.2 replaces pplx-decider-v1.1-27b as the 27B decision model, at $0.02 per million input tokens. pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 is a new 4B decision model at $0.01 per million input tokens. Both accept text and images and use the same request limits. Output tokens stay free.