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A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000/yr and still can't do a fraction of what Perplexity Computer just launched today 💻

It now connects directly to your bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and brokerage accounts through Plaid. Your full financial picture, from monthly spending to… https://t.co/DDsv47oAUk pic.twitter.com/91BEbDL2BM

— Josh Kale (@JoshKale) 9 avril 2026

A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000/yr and still can't do a fraction of what Perplexity Computer just launched today 💻 It now connects directly to your bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and brokerage accounts through Plaid. Your full financial picture, from monthly spending to net worth to individual stock positions, sitting on top of 40+ live finance data sources including SEC filings, FactSet, S&P Global, and Coinbase. Every dollar you earn, spend, owe, and invest, cross-referenced against institutional-grade data in real time. You can walk up to this thing and say: → Run a risk analysis on my portfolio against the current tariff environment → Show me where my spending spiked last month and what's driving it → Build a net worth dashboard that tracks everything in one place → Flag any holdings that overlap with what insiders have been selling this quarter And it just does it. Pulls from your linked accounts, cross-references SEC filings, builds the output, and delivers a finished product. The system running underneath is Perplexity Computer. It orchestrates 19 models simultaneously, breaks any goal into subtasks, spins up specialized agents for each one, and keeps working after you walk away. One model handles the reasoning. Another does the research. Another writes the code. Another builds the visualization. All coordinated automatically. Last month they launched with brokerage data only and someone built a Bloomberg Terminal clone in a single afternoon. That post did 7.5 million views. Now they've expanded to your entire financial life: checking, savings, credit cards, loans, and investments all in one place. Wall Street pays $30K a year for a terminal with 30,000 function commands built over four decades. It won't replace Bloomberg for institutional traders executing billion-dollar orders. But for everyone else, the gap just got a lot smaller. Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) Computer now connects with Plaid to link bank accounts, credit cards, and loans. Track spending in detail, build custom budget tools, and visualize your net worth alongside your investment portfolio. — https://nitter.net/perplexity_ai/status/2042256932397019368#m

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