# Unite.AI — Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, Its In-House Agent Sandbox Platform

- Company: Unite.AI (unite.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-15T17:03:15+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.unite.ai/perplexity-open-sources-space-its-in-house-agent-sandbox-platform/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/22988-perplexity-open-sources-space-its-in-house-agent-sandbox-platform
- Subject: Reporting
- Open weights: yes
- License: Apache License 2.0

Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the in-house sandbox platform behind its Computer personal agent, publishing the code on GitHub under the Apache License 2.0. Perplexity launched Computer in February using a commercial sandbox provider, then replaced it in July with SPACE, which it says has powered all Computer sessions since and handled millions of sandbox creations per day."In a company comparison on the same production traffic, sandbox creation was three to five times faster than with the previous provider," Perplexity reported. The company says it released SPACE to give developers a production-tested foundation for agent runtimes, with isolation, state recovery, and credential and network controls built in. Each sandbox runs inside its own virtual machine, with a central control plane coordinating lifecycle operations and credentials held outside the sandbox. Perplexity's security evaluation recorded no escape from the virtual machine to the host in 108 attempts; some attempts bypassed network restrictions, which the company says it fixed and that neither attack method worked in follow-up testing. SPACE is implemented in Rust and reached through HTTP and server-sent events, with an E2B compatibility wrapper, a local Kind cluster setup, hosted documentation, and an API reference. Perplexity says CoreWeave and Akamai have tested and launched SPACE on their clouds and Crusoe is partnering to bring it to its Managed AI Services portfolio.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.unite.ai/perplexity-open-sources-space-its-in-house-agent-sandbox-platform/:

> Perplexity announced on October 15, 2026 that it is open-sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform behind its Computer personal agent, releasing the code under the Apache License 2.0 with a public repository and hosted documentation.

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