January 2026 Summaries

Perplexity’s annual planning guide presents AI-assisted workflows for creating or completing yearly plans, addressing common delays caused by fragmented documents, repeated slide revisions, and budget adjustments. It provides prompts for stages including prior-year retrospectives, market analysis, OKR development, stakeholder communication, executive summaries, FAQs, and announcements. Pro and Enterprise users can connect applications such as Google Drive, SharePoint, Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Notion, and Jira so planning incorporates internal project information, while Enterprise High-Precision Search can analyze thousands of synced files. The company states that internal data remains under organizational governance and is not used to train its Enterprise models, while Perplexity can assist with tasks such as summarization, outlining, and budget spreadsheet structuring.

Perplexity marks Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary by recognizing its growth to more than 66 million articles in over 340 languages and the volunteer editors who research, write, fact-check, and maintain its content. As a Wikimedia enterprise customer, Perplexity says it supports the foundation’s mission of keeping knowledge free and accessible, and it is offering 2,500 Perplexity Enterprise seats to Wikipedia editors. The company highlights its shared emphasis on accuracy, citations, and verifiable information, presenting its Enterprise product as a tool that can help editors research, explore sources, and verify information more efficiently.

Perplexity has introduced a Public Safety Organizations program offering qualifying law enforcement and public safety agencies free access to Enterprise Pro for 12 months for up to 200 users, with discounted options for larger deployments. The service is designed to support tasks such as legal research, testimony preparation, cross-jurisdiction information gathering, multilingual reporting analysis, scene-image and body-camera transcript summarization, report drafting, translation, and community outreach. It provides mobile functionality including voice input and image uploads, source citations for responses, and access to multiple AI models. Perplexity also emphasizes privacy protections, stating that agency data is not used to train models and that administrators can manage information sharing across teams and departments.