Perplexity Jumps Into Legal With 'Computer for Counsel,' a Multi-Model AI Agent

My take: Okay, this one caught my full attention. Perplexity entered the legal market with 'Computer for Counsel,' a platform that does not rely on a single model but routes 20-plus frontier models per subtask. It also runs natively inside Microsoft 365, meaning lawyers use it from Word, SharePoint and Outlook without leaving the tools they already live in. They are going straight at Westlaw, which has spent decades as the unchallenged king of legal research. It is like when Spotify arrived and the labels were still selling CDs: the product itself might be fine, but the business model already smelled like history. What interests me most as a builder is the pattern: an agent that orchestrates multiple models per subtask, without locking into any single vendor. That design will show up in every industry with dense text. Keep an eye on this one.