Summary
OpenAI says Perplexity uses GPT-6 Astra to write communications, edit software, monitor production systems and emulate language-model APIs or connectors for testing. The account is a vendor-published customer case study with no independent benchmark data.
Why it matters
It is direct deployment evidence that coding models are moving into testing and operational loops, increasing the importance of verification and bounded authority.
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