October 15th 2026, 4:50 PM
Perplexity Open Sources Secure AI Sandbox SPACE for Wider Adoption
Key Summary
Perplexity, an AI company, has released the open-source code for its SPACE platform, a secure sandbox for AI agents, allowing developers to build and test their own AI models without compromising security. The platform has been stress-tested and proven secure, with a median sandbox creation latency of 60 milliseconds and support for stateful features and BYOK encryption.
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What SPACE actually does
Under the hood, SPACE is built on Firecracker microVMs, a virtualization technology developed by AWS. A microVM is a stripped-down virtual machine that offers the isolation of a full computer while starting up far faster than a traditional one.What this means for developers building agents
SPACE offers a reference implementation that has already run at production scale. Teams can adopt it outright, borrow its patterns, or use it as a benchmark for their own designs. The 60-millisecond median and the red-team results give them concrete numbers to measure against.Why open source, and what comes next
Releasing internal infrastructure under Apache 2.0 is a notable choice. The license is permissive, allowing developers and companies to use, modify, and build on the code, including in commercial products.Perplexity's vision for the future
Perplexity indicates it plans to expand SPACE as part of a broader Agentic Runtime Platform. It has also pointed to future collaboration with Nvidia and other partners aimed at establishing safety standards for this kind of infrastructure.#AI#Security#OpenSource#Space