By Marcus Mendes
Publication Date: 2026-05-01 20:35:00
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:”
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