Perplexity has partnered with UK sovereign infrastructure company Valarian to run Perplexity Computer inside institutions' own servers, including air-gapped networks, Perplexity said on 20 October 2026.
Valarian's ACRA platform runs Computer on infrastructure the institution controls and enforces access and network policies. Workloads are organised into enclaves with defined access to data, tools, users and credentials.
Institutions can run open-weight models such as Nemotron, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen on their own hardware. Air-gapped deployments operate without live connections to external model APIs or the public web.
Perplexity cited uses in government, finance, legal and healthcare. Deployments are available now.
"Institutions can have Computer work on sensitive tasks while retaining control over the infrastructure, data access, and permissions governing that work," Perplexity wrote.
The post did not give pricing or name customers.