Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini’s local applications. This may be too much AI for some people.
How Perplexity is illustrating its Personal Computer – Image Credit: Perplexity
How Perplexity is illustrating its Personal Computer – Image Credit: Perplexity
At the end of February, Perplexity rolled out Perplexity Computer, a so-called digital worker that uses the same software stack and other sub-agents just like a person would. That concept has now been expanded to run more locally to the user.
Announced via a meandering and navel-gazing X post by Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, the Personal Computer is a version of Perplexity Computer that handles things on a nearby computer. Srinivas directly name-checks the Mac mini as a platform it could run on, with the entire thing able to merge both the work of Perplexity Computer and a user’s local files.