The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow.

Perplexity has announced its Mac mini-based Personal Computer AI assistant, and it can run your computer for you.

Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people.

The system runs on a dedicated Apple Mac mini that operates continuously, providing secure access to files, apps, and user sessions while integrating with Perplexity's servers for advanced AI ...

Perplexity just announced its own AI agent, Personal Computer, that runs on Mac mini and can complete various tasks for you.

Perplexity has launched Personal Computer and Computer for Enterprise, which are designed to act as digital proxies that can perform complex tasks on behalf of a person or a company. While traditional ...

Perplexity AI has unveiled Personal Computer, an AI system designed to run on a Mac and act as a persistent digital agent capable of completing tasks across apps, files and online services.

Perplexity announced Computer for Enterprise at its Ask 2026 developer conference, launching a multi-model AI agent with Slack integration, Snowflake connectors, and 20 orchestrated AI models to ...

Perplexity Computer lets Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT 5.2 collaborate on the same task. The feature is live for Max subscribers today.

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models.

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer.