By Yahoo Finance Video
Publication Date: 2026-03-12 21:30:00
00:00 Speaker A
So this one, it sounds like perplexity wants to be more than just, you know, an answer engine. So it launched personal computer. So this is described here as a new AI agent tool that can turn a spare Mac into a locally run AI system. So in in simple terms, Dan, this is is this an AI agent that’s on my computer and is it sort of just working for me like a like a 24/7 digital assistant?
00:23 Speaker B
It’s like having a dude work your computer for you, right? It’s I mean, I mean that’s literally what it is, right? You know, we we’re seeing more and more of these agents come out. Uh there’s Open Claw, uh which originally was Claude Bot and before that it was uh after that it was uh I think it was uh Moltbot uh or Molt book. I can’t I can’t recall. There’s so many different names. It’s insane. Uh but it is uh uh uh available right now and it’s an AI agent that you set up, you can run
01:00 Speaker B
on your own. Uh setup’s not exactly easy, but it will do things on your computer for you using various apps, whether that’s WhatsApp or you know, even Spotify, things along those lines. That’s what we’re seeing more and more of. This is basically doing all of that on a system wide scale. And then you could, you know, log into it from different uh devices. So you’re able to tell it, okay, uh figure this out on my Mac, get back to me later uh with, you know, the results. And it’ll do just that. We’re going to continue
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