Apple praised Perplexity in yesterday’s Q2 2026 earnings call, and now the company is providing more details on why it’s building a Mac-first personal computer platform. Here are the details:
Personal computers that attracted attention during Apple’s financial results announcement
Last month, Perplexity announced Personal Computer. It’s a Mac-native platform built to primarily run on the Mac mini (though it can run on any Mac) and act as a personal agent assistant for users, running locally and across cloud environments.
Personal Computer Perplexity is as follows:
Personal computers are the future of work. Bring multi-model orchestration to your machine and work across local files, apps, and the web on one system. Mac mini works 24/7, so you can start your work from your phone, finish it, and come back.
According to the company, the biggest benefit of Personal Computer is that it recognizes that useful AI agents need to work in both local and cloud environments, rather than being limited to “running in a chat window or in an isolated virtual machine next to an app.”
Perplexity adds that Personal Computer is “built on the continuity that Apple users already expect to be able to work from anywhere.”
Yesterday, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh mentioned the product during Apple’s Q2 2026 earnings call, citing it as an example of a developer choosing the Mac as a platform for an “enterprise-grade AI assistant.”
With Apple Silicon and this powerful unified memory architecture, leading AI developers like Perplexity are choosing the Mac as their preferred platform for building enterprise-grade AI assistants that power autonomous agents and improve workplace productivity.
His comments come as the Mac mini and Mac Studio are sold out in several countries around the world, thanks to the success of agent platforms such as Personal Computer. Apple later confirmed that availability would remain very limited for several months.
Interestingly, Parekh’s comments come on the heels of Perplexity’s invite-only Ask NYC event, where company CEO Aravind Srinivas highlighted the fact that the company built Personal Computer to run “on any Mac,” using 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 $2.8 billion in labor-equivalent work for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers.”
At the event, Perplexity also announced a series of enterprise-ready updates to Personal Computer, including support for Microsoft Teams, native Excel integration currently in beta, new workflow capabilities for repeatable tasks, and deeper data connectors with Snowflake and Databricks.
Perplexity also announced a partnership with 1Password that allows Personal Computer to work within authenticated tools without exposing the user’s credentials to the model.
Click this link to learn more about what’s coming to Perplexity’s Personal Computer.
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