Perplexity and Nvidia launch Portable Computer, a local AI agent for Nvidia GPUs

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First look: Perplexity and Nvidia have jointly launched an agentic AI platform designed to run locally on a user's PC or workstation. Named Portable Computer, it's an optimized version of Perplexity's Computer AI platform, which the company announced earlier this year. The new AI agent lets users run complex AI workloads on their own hardware, bypassing the cloud and sidestepping steep token costs.

Speaking at a press conference, Perplexity's Nate Kupp said the new app carries the exact same UI as the original Computer platform and includes every feature needed for local inferencing. He added that some complex tasks may still require access to more powerful frontier models hosted online, but the app will ask for user consent before sending any data to the cloud.

Nvidia's Director of Developer Technologies, Nader Khalil, said...

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