Perplexity’s Personal Computer Is Now Available Everyone On Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its reply to OpenClaw and different section AI agents, is now disposable to each Mac users via its desktop app, nan institution announced connected Thursday.

As a reminder, Personal Computer is an description connected Perplexity’s general-purpose, multi-model integer worker dubbed, confusingly, Perplexity Computer. “Personal Computer,” meanwhile, is designed to bring those capabilities to your ain device. It does truthful by allowing AI agents entree to section files, applications, and connectors, arsenic good arsenic nan web, successful bid to grip nan individual user’s personal, multi-step workflows.

Ss nan institution describes Personal Computer, it “takes Computer retired of nan cloud-only world and onto nan instrumentality wherever astir of your existent activity already takes place.”

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The extremity is to capitalize connected nan increasing request for section AI agents, popularized by OpenClaw, which tin execute tasks connected users’ behalf. But while OpenClaw presented several security risks because of its elevated permissions, solutions for illustration Personal Computer are meant to connection users a safer AI-enabled computing environment. (Or astatine slightest that’s nan claim.)

Perplexity’s Personal Computer was first introduced past month, but was constricted to users connected to Perplexity Max subscribers and progressive a waitlist. Today, nan institution says anyone connected a Mac tin now effort nan software.

At launch, nan package is capable to activity pinch your section files, autochthonal Mac apps, and run connected nan web. It tin besides orchestrate tools, files, usage complete 400 connectors, and leverage your individual context, each wrong a unafraid improvement situation connected Perplexity’s servers.

If paired pinch Perplexity’s AI-powered Comet web browser, it tin run web-based devices without nan request for nonstop connectors.

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Designed to tally autonomous agents connected an always-on instrumentality for illustration a Mac Mini, Personal Computer tin moreover beryllium accessed remotely from your iPhone, wherever you tin initiate tasks aliases o.k. requests from your device.

Perplexity suggests this tin beryllium utilized for each types of work, for illustration moving pinch spreadsheets, documents, and projects pinch galore different materials. Because nan instrumentality tin activity crossed apps, agents could do thing for illustration comparison 2 files from different apps aliases propulsion notes from 1 app to create a draught successful another.

As a consequence of its wide availability, Perplexity says its older Mac app will beryllium deprecated successful nan weeks up truthful nan squad tin attraction connected nan Personal Computer app.

The caller Mac app is disposable arsenic a direct download only for now; it’s not successful nan Mac App Store.