Perplexity's Model Council runs user queries across three frontier AI models simultaneously in parallel.

When you ask a question, the system does not pick just one path. Instead, it dispatches your query to three different frontier models, such as Claude, GPT, and Gemini, at the exact same time. Running them in parallel ensures that each model works independently from the same starting line. This prevents any single model's bias or blind spots from dominating the initial search, laying a diverse foundation of raw answers.