Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent runtime
pswider · x · 2026-08-26
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a fully local version of Perplexity Computer. The entire runtime—including orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, and agent harness—runs on local hardware with zero cloud dependencies, marking a step towards user-owned local intelligence.
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