Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available everyone on Mac

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

As a reminder, Personal Computer is an enlargement connected Perplexity’s general-purpose, multi-model integer idiosyncratic 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 the web, successful bid to grip the idiosyncratic user’s personal, multi-step workflows.

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

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

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

At launch, the bundle is capable to enactment with your section files, autochthonal Mac apps, and run connected the web. It tin besides orchestrate tools, files, usage implicit 400 connectors, and leverage your idiosyncratic context, each wrong a unafraid improvement situation connected Perplexity’s servers.

If paired with Perplexity’s AI-powered Comet web browser, it tin run web-based tools without the request for nonstop connectors.

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

Perplexity suggests this tin beryllium utilized for each types of work, similar moving with spreadsheets, documents, and projects with galore antithetic materials. Because the instrumentality tin enactment crossed apps, agents could bash thing similar comparison 2 files from antithetic apps oregon propulsion notes from 1 app to make a draught successful another.

As a effect of its wide availability, Perplexity says its older Mac app volition beryllium deprecated successful the weeks up truthful the squad tin absorption connected the Personal Computer app.

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