MiniMax Agent now uses @perplexity_ai Search. We benchmarked 3 AI-native search providers across 700+ agent tasks. Perplexity delivered the best combination of answer quality and snippet density: more useful evidence per token, less irrelevant context, and lower end-to-end cost. Compared with Serper, our previous default: ⚡Tool calls per task: 17.8 vs 32.6 (45% reduction) 💰Token usage: 94.6M vs. 162.3M (42% reduction) 🔍Pass rate: +2% increase Total cost: 27% decrease in total cost savings In agent workflows, search is not a one-shot lookup. It is a loop. Better snippets mean better grounding. Better grounding means fewer searches, less context, better answers, and lower cost. One good search can save 14 bad ones. Now shipping in MiniMax Agent. agent.minimax.io/