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Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox running every Computer session

Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind its Computer agent, on October 15th under the Apache 2.0 license. Perplexity says SPACE has powered every Computer session since July and handles millions of sandbox creations per day, using Firecracker microVMs, and described it as the first component of a broader Agentic Runtime Platform. The release reflects Perplexity's bet on enforcing agent security at the runtime level.

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Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox running every Computer session
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The Apache 2.0 release uses Firecracker microVMs. Perplexity says SPACE has powered all Computer sessions since July and handles millions of sandbox creations per day.

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Primary source: [Perplexity](https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2110778478312481167)

Why it matters #

Perplexity is publishing infrastructure it says already runs Computer at scale, aiming to use developer adoption and cloud partnerships to make its approach to agent containment a shared runtime.

Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind its Computer agent, on October 15th under the Apache 2.0 license. Perplexity says SPACE has powered every Computer session since July. The company described SPACE as the first component of a broader Agentic Runtime Platform. The release reflects Perplexity's bet on enforcing agent security at the runtime level.

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