Perplexity's @zbraniecki reveals what happened when they asked Mythos and other frontier AI models to escape the sandbox designed to contain them: "It was the moment of feeling like we live in the future, where we were able to just ask the agents to try to escape. And they’ve all tried." "We could ask them without giving them the source code, without telling them that they're in the sandbox. We could ask them telling them that they’re in the sandbox. We could show them the code and be like,…

Perplexity@perplexity_ai14h ago

We're open sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in Perplexity Computer. SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside the VM. Available now under Apache 2.0: https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE?tab=Apache-2.0-1-ov-file