By Warren
Publication Date: 2026-09-18 07:52:00
Most AI laptops still treat artificial intelligence as a collection of side features: summarize a document, generate an image, blur a webcam background. HP’s new ZBook Ultra G3a is trying something more ambitious by making AI agents part of the workstation itself.
The 16-inch mobile workstation is powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO hardware and can be configured with up to 192GB of unified memory, with as much as 160GB allocated to graphics workloads. HP says that is enough to run large language models with up to 300 billion parameters locally, depending on the model and configuration.
The more interesting part, however, is the software. Perplexity Computer comes preloaded, and HP is demonstrating how it can connect directly to professional applications such as Autodesk Revit rather than forcing users to copy information between an AI chatbot and their work.
AI agents that can actually see the project
Through a supported MCP connector, Perplexity Computer can work with information from an open Revit model to perform tasks such as reading building data, writing reports, exporting views and generating schedules. That is a very different use case from asking a general chatbot a question about architecture because the agent is operating with context from the actual project.
HP is also positioning local processing as a privacy and cost advantage. A company working with confidential building plans, engineering data or…
