Perplexity Opens Up Its Personal Computer Ai Assistant To All Mac Users

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Last month, Perplexity sought to amended compete pinch nan likes of Claude Cowork and get retired up of Apple's delayed, generative AI-powered type of Siri by bringing Personal Computer to macOS. The AI adjunct was antecedently only disposable to those connected Perplexity's $200 per period Max plan, but now nan institution has opened it up to each Mac users.

The institution says everyone tin download nan new Perplexity macOS app and usage Personal Computer "for mundane queries, attachments and dictation." Usage is tied to Pro and Max plans' in installments limits, Perplexity noted.

Personal Computer tin tally tasks crossed section files, different apps, nan web and Perplexity's ain servers, according to nan company. It taps into a number of models to transportation retired circumstantial tasks, specified arsenic Gemini for heavy research, Nano Banana for images and ChatGPT "for long-context callback and wide search." Unlike pinch akin tools, Personal Computer will grip nan bulk of nan dense lifting successful nan unreality arsenic opposed to moving wholly locally, successful portion to trim strain connected nan Mac.

The institution says you tin tally Personal Computer astir nan timepiece connected a Mac mini — arsenic immoderate group are doing pinch OpenClaw — and power it remotely from an iPhone. Perplexity has besides noted that nan assistant's actions are auditable and reversible, truthful users mightiness not person to interest excessively overmuch astir it accidentally wiping precious family photos.