Perplexity open-sources WANDR benchmark for deep-research AI agents

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Suhail@Suhail

@itschriskeith they're smart and seem to really care

5:48 PM · Jul 14, 2026

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Pukerainbow 🤮🌈@pukerrainbrow

@perplexity_ai WANDRful move

5:38 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Denis Yarats@denisyarats

today we're open-sourcing an eval/RL environment for measuring agentic search performance. importantly, these environments were synthesized from production traces, offering a real-world distribution, with weak human supervision. internally, we've been using these RL environments to train capable models (more on that soon), and we're scaling this paradigm to other domains and tasks, drawing on use cases from our products to cover the entire knowledge work distribution. more details here: https://github.com/perplexityai/wandr/blob/main/reference/wandr_paper.pdf

12:47 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas

Perplexity has the best (both on cost and performance) deep and wide research harness in Computer. One of the contributing factors is strong internal evals and benchmarks. Today, we're open-sourcing WANDR, the benchmark we use internally for measuring research capabilities.

11:59 AM · Jul 14, 2026

Andy Konwinski@andykonwinski

the companies that figure out how to capture their value propositions into evals and envs will win. the ability to create high quality evaluations is a new type of strategic advantage, and it is more important than access to capital, economies of scale, network effects, or any other traditional competitive advantage

2:06 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Suhail@Suhail

Perplexity is very good at building these benchmarks. Whenever I study them in-depth, it’s always the strongest in the field. DRACO was excellent compared to all the other Deep Research ones, for instance.

5:21 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Suhail@Suhail

The Perplexity is very good at building these benchmarks. Whenever I study them in-depth, it’s always the strongest in the field. DRACO was excellent compared to all the other Deep Research ones, for instance.

5:08 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas

Wide Research is now available in Perplexity Agent API

3:37 PM · Jul 14, 2026