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Perplexity Ships Its Search Agent's Sandbox as Open Source
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Fusion42 · 16 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
Perplexity has open sourced its sandbox execution environment SPACE, based on Firecracker microVMs, which powers its agent sessions and is gaining traction with cloud partners. This marks the sandbox layer as a commodity, shifting market value to agent governance and control plane infrastructure.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure and AI Agents, and 3 sources have reported it.
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You must stop custom-building sandboxes and instead focus on building agent governance and coordination layers, as the sandbox is now a commodity. Control plane ownership is becoming the key to capturing the AI agent infrastructure market.
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3 sources · 16 Oct 2026
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