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Perplexity’s New Local-First AI Runs on Your PC — and Asks Before Using the Cloud

The local-first agent keeps files and work on-device, and Perplexity says locally completed tasks use no billing credits.

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Most AI assistants require you to send your questions, files and other data to somebody else’s servers. Perplexity’s new Portable Computer turns that arrangement around by running the entire AI system on hardware you own.Announced Tuesday, Portable Computer brings Perplexity’s agentic Computer platform to Nvidia DGX Spark and other Linux machines with compatible Nvidia graphics cards.The company says every task begins on your machine. If the loc…

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Perplexity, in partnership with giant NVIDIA, has just released a new, refined client application called Portable Computer. The tool is aimed primarily at the NVIDIA DGX Spark supercomputer. It's a local AI agent that runs directly on your hardware. Zero token fees and complete privacy. NVIDIA DGX Spark gets a powerful agent. It won't take a penny and won't sell your data. All inference, file searches, and task execution by the agent happen loca…

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VentureBeat broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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