Perplexity Ships Portable Computer, a Fully Local AI Agent
Portable Computer takes the cloud-based Perplexity Computer and runs the entire stack locally, meaning the agent operates with zero token costs.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
Perplexity released Portable Computer, a fully local version of its Perplexity Computer AI agent. Neither the LLM nor the harness relies on the cloud; everything runs on local hardware. It runs on an NVIDIA DGX Spark workstation or a Linux machine with RTX GPUs, with PPLX 27B and Qwen 3.8 27B models available and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning support expected soon.
The fully local version of Perplexity Computer still runs the same core design: an agent that uses Anthropic's model 4.6 as its reasoning engine and routes subtasks to specialized sub-agents. The difference is where that work happens. The harness, models, orchestrator, tools, and sandbox all operate on local hardware, with no cloud dependency.
The execution environment is an NVIDIA AI workstation called DGX Spark or a Linux machine equipped with NVIDIA RTX series GPUs. Perplexity will offer Portable Computer to subscribers of Perplexity Pro, Perplexity Max, and the Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max plans. Windows support is scheduled for September 2026.
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