Perplexity Labs turned a search engine into a report builder
The May 2025 feature let paying subscribers generate spreadsheets, dashboards and reports from one request.
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$20monthly price of the plan that included Labs
This is a look back at news from the week of . We wrote it on November 11, 2026, from the sources listed at the end.
Perplexity, the AI search company, launched a feature called Labs in late May 2025. It was available to subscribers of the $20-a-month Pro plan and could create reports, spreadsheets and dashboards, TechCrunch reported, according to AI Weekly's summary.
Why it mattered
Labs was part of a wider shift in 2025 from chatbots that answer to tools that produce finished work. Ask a question and you get a paragraph. Ask Labs and you get a file.
That is the idea behind an AI agent: a model that takes several steps on its own to reach a result. A year later every large AI company sold some version of it.
Sources
- Issue #442: Beyond chatbots, AI Weekly, May 30, 2025
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