Perplexity Computer: the Ultrafast tier goes live, and Polymarket becomes a queryable connector
From the AI digest for 2026-10-14
What happened: Two Computer capability items from Arav on October 14. (1) Ultrafast inference (~1:58 PM ET): "Ultrafast inference of OpenAI frontier models now supported on Computer. Try it out. It's super fast. Credit drain warning" — Perplexity: "Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers. Both generate tokens faster, completing long Computer tasks sooner. Choose Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast." (2) Polymarket (~2:11 PM ET): "You can now tag @Polymarket inside Perplexity Computer for market and real time trends research tasks" — Perplexity Finance: Computer "now pulls real-time data directly from @Polymarket's API," with mentioning or @-tagging Polymarket in a query yielding "market-implied probabilities, trading volume, and liquidity across 250,000+ active prediction markets."
What's genuinely new: Development of "ai — Perplexity: search index as agent infrastructure" — the Ultrafast tier is the "Ultrafast" name from OpenAI's own October 14 Amp case study (per the GPT-6 Astra rollout storyline) surfacing as an actual speed seting inside a third-party agent harness, and the Polymarket connector is the record's first prediction-market-class integration on Computer's connector ledger — a market-data rail beside the thread's existing agent-trading record (Coinbase telemetry, multi-agentic Coinbase trading). Both are vendor announcements that the feature is live in Computer; the credit mechanics behind the "credit drain warning" and any Polymarket connector pricing are not in the window, and nothing here is independently verified.
Watch: The credit-multiplier mechanics behind "credit drain warning" and Ultrafast pricing; whether the 250,000+ active-prediction-markets figure holds and which query classes hit the connector; whether OpenAI's own Ultrafast tier gets first-party documentation; whether Arav follows the Claude Code Desktop-style changelog discipline on either item.
Links: Arav: Ultrafast on Computer · Arav: Polymarket tagging