Final month, Perplexity sought to higher compete with the likes of Claude Cowork and get out forward of Apple’s delayed, generative AI-powered model of Siri by bringing Personal Computer to macOS. The AI assistant was beforehand solely accessible to these on Perplexity’s $200 per month Max plan, however now the corporate has opened it up to all Mac customers.
The corporate says everybody can obtain the new Perplexity macOS app and use Private Pc “for on a regular basis queries, attachments and dictation.” Utilization is tied to Professional and Max plans’ credit score limits, Perplexity famous.
Private Pc can run duties throughout native information, different apps, the online and Perplexity’s personal servers, in keeping with the corporate. It taps into a variety of fashions to hold out particular duties, resembling Gemini for deep analysis, Nano Banana for photos and ChatGPT “for long-context recall and broad search.” In contrast to with comparable instruments, Private Pc will deal with the majority of the heavy lifting within the cloud versus operating totally domestically, partly to cut back pressure on the Mac.
The corporate says you possibly can run Private Pc across the clock on a Mac mini — as some persons are doing with OpenClaw — and management it remotely from an iPhone. Perplexity has additionally famous that the assistant’s actions are auditable and reversible, so customers may not have to fret an excessive amount of about it by accident wiping precious family photos.
