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Perplexity’s new Portable Computer runs “entirely on device.”

Unlike the computer-controlling AI tool Perplexity launched earlier this year, the Portable Computer feature runs AI models fully locally and will ask for permission if it needs to access the cloud “for more advanced research and reasoning.” It will be available on Nvidia’s DGX Spark first, before rolling out to PCs with compatible Nvidia RTX GPUs. [Link: Introducing Portable Computer for local-first AI | https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-portable-computer-for-local-first-ai | Perplexity]

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Perplexity AI: the answer engine with a lot of question marks

Unlike the computer-controlling AI tool Perplexity launched earlier this year, the Portable Computer feature runs AI models fully locally and will ask for permission if it needs to access the cloud “for more advanced research and reasoning.” It will be available on Nvidia’s DGX Spark first , before rolling out to PCs with compatible Nvidia RTX GPUs.

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