Following Apple shoutout, Perplexity elaborates on Mac-native ‘Personal Computer’ platform

Apple gave Perplexity a shoutout during its Q2 2026 earnings call yesterday, and now the company is offering more details on why it is building its Mac-first Personal Computer platform. Here are the details.

Personal Computer highlighted during Apple’s earnings call

Last month, Perplexity announced Personal Computer, a Mac-native platform built to primarily run on a Mac mini (though it can run on any Mac) and serve as the user’s personal agentic assistant running across their local and cloud environments.

Here’s Perplexity on Personal Computer:

Personal Computer is the future of work. It brings multi-model orchestration to your own machine, working across local files, apps, and the web in one system. On a Mac mini, it runs 24/7, letting you begin work from your phone and come back to it done.

According to the company, the biggest advantage of Personal Computer is the acknowledgment that a useful AI agent should operate across both local and cloud environments, rather than being limited to “a chat window or run inside an isolated virtual machine next to your apps.”

Perplexity adds that Personal Computer “builds on the continuity Apple users already expect to get work done no matter where they are.”

Yesterday, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh mentioned the product during Apple’s Q2 2026 earnings call, citing it as an example of developers choosing the Mac as the platform for “enterprise-grade AI assistants:”

With Apple silicon and this powerful unified memory architecture, leading AI developers, like Perplexity, are choosing Mac as their preferred platform to build enterprise-grade AI assistants that power autonomous agents and boost workplace productivity.

His comment came in the context of the Mac mini and Mac Studio being sold out in several countries worldwide, thanks to the success of agentic platforms such as Personal Computer. Apple would later confirm that availability will remain extremely constrained for several months.

Interestingly, Parekh’s comment came on the heels of Perplexity’s invite-only Ask NYC event, where the company’s CEO Aravind Srinivas stressed the fact that the company built Personal Computer to run “on any Mac, with a Mac mini as one of the best ways to deploy it at full capacity.”

He also revealed that since launch, Personal Computer “has performed more than $2.8B in labor-equivalent work for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers.”

At the event, Perplexity also announced a series of enterprise-focused updates to Personal Computer, including support for Microsoft Teams, a native Excel integration now in beta, a new workflows feature for repeatable tasks, and deeper data connectors with Snowflake and Databricks.

Perplexity also announced a partnership with 1Password that will allow Personal Computer to act inside authenticated tools without exposing user credentials to the model.

To learn more about what’s coming to Perplexity’s Personal Computer, follow this link.

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