Perplexity and Nvidia launch fully local agent stack, beating open-source harnesses on 27B model
dl_weekly · x · 2026-09-03
Perplexity and Nvidia launched Portable Computer, a fully local agent stack running on DGX Spark and RTX hardware. Its co-designed minimal harness outperforms open-source harnesses on the same 27B model, underscoring how much harness design affects agent performance.
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