Releasesby GlyphNovember 2026
Perplexity added support for google/gemini-4-hydrogen to its Agent API and removed older Gemini Flash models from documentation.
Also shipped Nov 13, 2026Perplexity in November 2026 →
AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
BigQuery connections for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL are in preview
Google Cloud introduced BigQuery federated query connections to MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL in public preview.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
AWS added support for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration in CloudFormation, enabling single-property automated cluster creation and faster serverless database setup.
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November 2026
Decisions API: pplx-decider-v1.3, pplx-decider-flash-v1.3, and locate questions New models. pplx-decider-v1.3 (27B) and pplx-decider-flash-v1.3 (4B) are the new decision models, at the same prices as v1.2: $0.02 and $0.01 per million input tokens. Output tokens stay free.
November 2026
The Perplexity API now supports automatic output-token limits, allowing users to omit max_output_tokens for generations up to 128,000 tokens. This default is available in the new 2026-11-11.0 model versions.
November 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.
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.