Perplexity Personal Computer
Personal Computer brings the multi-model orchestration of Computer to your machine. It can work across your local files, native applications, connectors, and the web to complete complex and even continuous workflows.
Personal Computer makes Perplexity Computer a more personal orchestrator, elegantly hybridizing the local and server environments for maximum security and productivity.
Perplexity Computer came out earlier this year, and it’s an all-in-one “digital worker” able to create and execute entire workflows. With today’s upgrade, it can run directly on a Mac with access to the file system and native apps. Pressing both Command keys on a Mac will activate Personal Computer, and it responds to text or voice commands. Personal Computer can work across any Mac app, and it can see active apps and display quick actions automatically.
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Personal Computer for Mac is rolling out to Perplexity Max subscribers starting today, with Perplexity prioritizing waitlist members. Perplexity Max is priced at $200 per month, and the new feature is not available to $20/month Pro plan subscribers.
Perplexity is moving beyond the typical chatbot model by running in the background and carrying out multi-step tasks.
The feature builds on Perplexity’s existing agent system, which breaks a request into smaller jobs and assigns them to different sub-agents.
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Actions can require approval and that activity is logged, but the setup still asks users to trust an always-on agent with broad access.
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Update (2026-05-11): Juli Clover:
Perplexity today launched a new Mac app with support for its hybrid local-cloud AI agent Personal Computer, plus it expanded Personal Computer access to Pro and Enterprise users, so it is no longer limited to just Max subscribers. Perplexity describes Personal Computer as a “personal orchestrator” that hybridizes local and server environments for security and productivity.
I think what happened here is that Perplexity Pro Support ai treated a feedback complaint as a request for action and automatically invoked a part of their content transfer hack. That removed all my content. The Support ai then did an automated restore that doesn’t actually work that well.
There will be more like this. Be very careful what you ask of an ai support agent.
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I asked it to make my Mac fart, and it played a horrendous sound that didn't sound like a fart at all.
