AI NewsPerplexity Takes On Claude Cowork With Personal Computer, an Agentic AI Platform for Mac Mini

Perplexity Takes On Claude Cowork With Personal Computer, an Agentic AI Platform for Mac Mini

5:01 PM IST · March 12, 2026

Perplexity unveiled the Personal Computer on Wednesday as an extension to the last month's Perplexity Computer platform. Unlike what the name suggests, it is not a hardware system, but a dedicated tool for Apple's Mac Mini that connects Perplexity Computer to a device, and allows it to access the local apps and files. With that, the multi-model agentic system can perform a wider range of complex tasks autonomously. The company's new offering also competes with other automation tools available in the market, such as Anthropic's Claude Cowork, Microsoft's Copilot Cowork, and OpenClaw.