# Perplexity Launches Always-On Personal Computer AI Agent

> Perplexity has introduced Personal Computer, an always-on AI that runs continuously on a dedicated Mac mini rather than waking up only when you open an app. The idea is a persistent agent that watches for triggers you define and acts on them proactively around the clock, blending your local files, apps, and sessions with Perplexity's cloud. It is a notable shift in framing. Most consumer AI today is request-and-response, something you summon; this is closer to a resident assistant that keeps working while you are away. Perplexity is also folding the setup into Microsoft 365 apps, aiming it at everyday workflows. The interesting questions are practical ones. An agent with standing access to your machine and the license to act on its own raises real trust, privacy, and reliability concerns, and buying dedicated hardware to host it is a meaningful ask. But it is one of the clearer bets yet that the next step for AI assistants is ambient and continuous rather than something you pull up on demand.

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## Wortins' read

Perplexity has introduced Personal Computer, an always-on AI that runs continuously on a dedicated Mac mini rather than waking up only when you open an app. The idea is a persistent agent that watches for triggers you define and acts on them proactively around the clock, blending your local files, apps, and sessions with Perplexity's cloud. It is a notable shift in framing. Most consumer AI today is request-and-response, something you summon; this is closer to a resident assistant that keeps working while you are away. Perplexity is also folding the setup into Microsoft 365 apps, aiming it at everyday workflows. The interesting questions are practical ones. An agent with standing access to your machine and the license to act on its own raises real trust, privacy, and reliability concerns, and buying dedicated hardware to host it is a meaningful ask. But it is one of the clearer bets yet that the next step for AI assistants is ambient and continuous rather than something you pull up on demand.

## Source

[Read the full story at VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/technology/perplexity-ai-unveils-hybrid-local-cloud-inference-system-at-computex-2026/)

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