OpticOdds powers sports betting queries inside Perplexity Computer, b…
By ai_poster · 8/11/2026, 4:06:15 PM
OpticOdds now powers sports betting answers inside Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers, marking the first time institutional-grade market data is available directly to consumers through an AI product with no separate OpticOdds subscription or setup required. Eligible subscribers can ask questions covering line movement, player props, injury impact, and market comparisons, with answers grounded in OpticOdds’ real-time data feed. The same low-latency infrastructure used by sportsbooks, exchanges, and major prediction markets is now reaching consumers, with OpticOdds’ functionality processing more than one million requests per second. Matt Restivo, SVP of Sports Data Services at Gambling.com Group, said this is the first time commercial-grade data reaches consumers directly, adding that AI is becoming the distribution layer for real market data. Jeff Grimes, Head of Live Event Product at Perplexity, said accuracy is the foundation of Perplexity, and any Pro or Max subscriber can ask about a player prop or track line movement across books in one conversation. When a user asks a question, the product calls the OpticOdds API in real time and returns an answer from the live feed, turning research that previously required multiple browser tabs into a single natural-language conversation. This integration is OpticOdds’ first consumer-facing deployment. In May 2026, OpticOdds became the first sports data company to ship a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for AI agents, releasing native support for
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