Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its answer to OpenClaw and other local AI agents, is now available to all Mac users via its desktop app, the company announced on Thursday.

A new hybrid inference system from Perplexity routes AI tasks between your device and the cloud automatically.

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

With Perplexity's Push for Hybrid AI, Your Laptop Could Function as a Data Center ...

Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local ...

Personal Computer is designed to be your personal assistant with access to all your tools It's installed on a Mac mini with access to 20 frontier models and more The enterprise productivity gains ...

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More ...

Perplexity AI unveiled a hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026 that automatically routes AI tasks between a ...

After a slow roll-out Perplexity's Personal Computer feature is more widely available to let users make a persistent agent that can access files, apps, and tasks across a user's Mac. The release ...

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said that whichever company can provide the "most taken value per watt per user" will be the AI winners in the future.