Personal Computer by Perplexity

> In a study of over 16,000 queries, measured against institutional benchmarks from McKinsey, Harvard, MIT, BCG, and others, we determined Perplexity Computer saved our internal teams $1.6M in labor costs and performed 3.25 years of work in only four weeks. And now we’re extending those same capabilities to other teams.

This is a wild statement that does not seem to be supported by any actual data.

What does it mean? Does clicking on a link counts as labor.

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Avicebron 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> What does it mean? Does clicking on a link counts as labor.

I think we might be seeing what happens when people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other and jockeying excel/gantt charts/org charts. Yeah for some definition of "work" I guarantee that a LLM could perform 3.25 years worth in four weeks.

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nine_k 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>> Harvard, MIT

> people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other

Hmm, this does not sound exactly right. Also, does anybody seriously think that communication is not work, or is not important? A number of really impactful things started from people emailing each other. (Hell, Linux kernel development is still much about people emailing patches each other.)

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anonzzzies 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some type of emailing is important, what most people do, however, is not. Same with meetings, calls etc. Most of it is filling the day so they don't get fired.

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pembrook 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem with human labor is that, as an organization scales, the amount of work any individual in the system can do shrinks due to the coordination problem.

Coordination consumes a larger and larger amount of employee time to the point that, in the absolute largest organizations, the vast majority of employee time is internal coordination vs. actual improvement/selling of the customer offering.

So if you go from 100 employees to 1,000 employees, they can MAYBE do 4X the work. Not 10X like you'd think. And this effect gets even worse as you scale further.

So if an AI can do 10X more labor in a human day, and can coordinate instantaneously via a central context ledger (say a git repo), it doesn't just create 10X gains in productivity for large orgs. It creates a multiple of that 10X due to also removing the human coordination overhead.

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_pdp_ 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't you think AI itself is something that adds coordination overhead? A 1000 strong team with AI agents will feel like 5000-person company where more than 30% are not even at exception level - i.e. they need to be pulled along.

This is why having less people and more agents actually makes sense but the coordination problem remains either way.

And you cannot escape it because it is simply mathematical.

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pembrook 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The coordination problem absolutely can be escaped with technology, hence why productivity gains exist and why the economy grows and isn't a fixed pie over time.

Here's an easy non-AI example:

In the past, a 'computer' was literally a person [1]. If you needed to synthesize large amounts of data, you needed to split the task among a team of people writing things down and then a team of people to check their work after the fact and then a team of people to combine all the work and then a team to double-check the combined work.

Tasks that in the past would have taken a room full of people coordinating with pencils are absolutely done by 1 machine today (what we know as computers) that no longer needs to split that task and coordinate, which is exactly what will happen with 'agents' who can take on vastly more work per unit of time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

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_pdp_ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Look up Amdahl's Law and Universal Scalability Law.

The math doesn't care whether the nodes are people, CPUs or language models. If agent A's next action depends on what agent B decided, you've introduced a sequential dependency.

	▲	Nevermark 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Note that Amdahl's rule doesn't capture the practical situation. 1) The purpose of algorithms is ultimately to create value, not compute some fixed value X. This is important as it gives flexibility to choose different value producing tasks where parallelism dominates over serial tasks, whenever the the latter becomes a bottleneck. 2) In terms of producing value, perfect accuracy or the best possible solutions are not always necessary. Many serial tasks can become very parallel tasks when accuracy or certainty do not have to be complete. 3) Solutions that are reusable changes the math further. No matter how serial a calculation is, if something is calculated that can be reused, that serial part becomes effectively order O(1), after calculation if reused exactly, but as neural network demonstrate, many serial tasks become very parallelized after training a model that can be reused for now a wide class of specific problems. Resulting in very amortized serial computing costs. It doesn't matter how many steps something takes, if those steps are now in the past and the value is "forever" reusable. 4) The economics of serial and parallel computation are not static, but improve relative to economic value achieved. Meaning that demand for cheaper serial time and currency costs result in improved scaled up hardware that delivers cheaper serial costs. This may have less impact than the previous points, but over years makes a tremendous difference on top of all those points. This can go on. The point being Amdahl's law certainly applies to specific algorithms, but is not the dominant determinant of computing in general, and not useful application of computing to a significant degree, where problems can be strategically chosen, strategically weakened or altered, and can be strategically fashioned to create O(V) of value - to balance any O(S) cost of serial computing, via direct reuse and generalization.
	▲	pembrook 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The point is that we don't need an equivalent number of nodes (agents) as we needed people. The computer flattened the coordination dependencies of that room full of people by doing all the calculations by itself. As they get smarter, you can theoretically assume 1 agent could eventually run the entire US federal government. In the historical [human] computer example; if 15,000 calculations needed to be done, a CPU doesn't need to wait on Bob to come back from lunch to do the next 20 calculations...and doesn't need to wait on Alice to combine his work with the 20 calculations done by Jane...and doesn't need Bill to wait for everybody to be done to double check Jane's work. The CPU does all 15,000 calculations instantly, by itself. This will be similar with AI agents.

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keeda 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep, I call this the "Conway Overhead": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270142

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resonious 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Completely agreed. The thought that "people emailing each other" is a problem that should be "automated" away is delusional.

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sally_glance 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The amazing thing is that soon (actually already) we will be seeing people being paid way too much to prompt a LLM to email other people or respond to other peoples emails. And then turn these emails into presentations which will be turned into meeting transcripts again followed by emails.

The lingering question is if the intermediate LLM translation steps will actually make our communication more efficient - or just amplify the already inefficient parts.

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pdfernhout 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Inefficiency all too often is celebrated by our society, as I wrote in 2010: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html "Also, many current industries that employ large numbers of people (ranging from the health insurance industry, the compulsory schooling industry, the defense industry, the fossil fuel industry, conventional agriculture industry, the software industry, the newspaper and media industries, and some consumer products industries) are coming under pressure from various movements from both the left and the right of the political spectrum in ways that might reduce the need for much paid work in various ways. Such changes might either directly eliminate jobs or, by increasing jobs temporarily eliminate subsequent problems in other areas and the jobs that go with them (as reflected in projections of overall cost savings by such transitions); for example building new wind farms instead of new coal plants might reduce medical expenses from asthma or from mercury poisoning. A single-payer health care movement, a homeschooling and alternative education movement, a global peace movement, a renewable energy movement, an organic agriculture movement, a free software movement, a peer-to-peer movement, a small government movement, an environmental movement, and a voluntary simplicity movement, taken together as a global mindshift of the collective imagination, have the potential to eliminate the need for many millions of paid jobs in the USA while providing enormous direct and indirect cost savings. This would make the unemployment situation much worse than it currently is, while paradoxically possibly improving our society and lowering taxes. Many of the current justifications for continuing social policies that may have problematical effects on the health of society, pose global security risks, or may waste prosperity in various ways is that they create vast numbers of paid jobs as a form of make-work."

	▲	sally_glance 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Philosophy territory now... you wrote about technology making labor unnecessary 15 years ago - Aristotele did ~2000 years ago too (same text where he tried to justify slavery but nvm that): "For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, [...] if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves." I bet in 2000 years they will still be writing about it - yeah, technology changes our lives (for better or worse).

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wetoastfood 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think they're measuring the _value_ of the work, just what it would've cost to have humans do it. How long would it take you to produce a report of a specific length on the history of changes to the White House approved by presidents over time that includes citations and links to sources? Let's say 40 hours? Boom. $100 per hour * 40 hours = $4,000 report and 1 weeks worth of effort produced in 15 minutes. Multiply this type of "work" by 400 and you have $1.6M in labor costs and 7.6 years of work.

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deepfriedbits 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm perpetually cautious about wild tech claims myself, but if you watch the launch video, there are examples of how they could claim labor/cost savings.

For example, one task takes a document with data, charts, and metrics, and Perplexity Computer was tasked with creating a 10-page slide deck for a presentation. Prior to AI, that took human capital and labor costs.

I can't say whether the $1.6M in labor costs is legit or not, but these tools are not just clicking links in 2026.

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tekno45 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why would you make a presentation?

send me the data and ill ask my own AI to do it in my favorite silly voice.

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SebastianSosa1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Comparing to pre-chatgpt workflows makes for useless statements

I want to know pre-"personal computer by perplexity"

	▲	deepfriedbits 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You don't think there's cost/labor savings in making agents and workflows easier to use? I don't think your average back office employee is going to be setting up OpenClaw.

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hatthew 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I'm running a lot of model training workflows concurrently, I can spend a small but noticeable amount of my day just clicking through links to see current progress and logs of any errors. If an AI would be capable of understanding the relatively complex UI, at least enough to find the right links to click, it could make a status report that takes me 15 seconds to read, and from that alone would save $2000 of labor annually.

I think their numbers of $1.6M and 3.25 years is still probably a massive overestimate, but the order of magnitude seems plausible.

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maxdo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perplexity for sure saved / invented years of work.

The typical market research , Google analyze , put into spreadsheet is almost gone job. Imagine how many people were doing that as major part of their work

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recursive 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> the computer lives with you.

What does this mean? The computer isn't alive. It's physically located on my person? Phones and watches have already cracked this.

If I say "Bob lives with me", that just mean that they generally share a residence with me. Desktop PCs already do that.

I just don't understand what's even intended by this.

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thedanbob 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> What does this mean? The computer isn't alive.

But they want you to think of it as alive. They're anthropomorphizing it.

	▲	recursive 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you stop paying this subscription, this living computer with the googly puppy eyes gets it. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your best friend, would you? soft whimpering sounds

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moritzwarhier 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I just don't understand what's even intended by this.

I might be misinterpreting, but according to the landing page, this is the intention:

> Personal Computer gives Perplexity Computer and the Comet Assistant always-on, local access to your machine's files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running compact desktop.

> It's a persistent digital proxy of you. Controllable from any device, anywhere.

That being said, the grandeur and bombastic language also seems fitting for something less sinister, like an even worse version of MS Recall maybe? Combined with, let's say... agents!

That's it! You Personal Computer is your agent and not only may act on your behalf, it also communicates your preferences and intentions.

Futuristic, right?

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jcims 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

From the blog post (https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer)

>Personal Computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 24/7, connected to your local apps and Perplexity’s secure servers.

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gizajob 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ohhh so it’s just openclaw. Innovative.

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Tempest1981 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yep. Perplexity offers this comparison/recommendation:

Choose Perplexity Computer if you: want a managed, safer, minimal‑setup agent for research, content, presentations, and business workflows, and you’re fine paying a subscription for a polished cloud experience.

Choose OpenClaw if you: are technical, want local code execution and device automation, prefer full control over models/tools, and are willing to own the security and troubleshooting burden.

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nine_k 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenClaw as an appliance, ready to use, sold to non-techies? May as well be profitable.

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boringg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.

	▲	nine_k 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does any fashion thing always offer a lot of gain? But it's selling well because it's hot fashion, a talking piece, a sign of belonging to a particular social circle, etc. Perplexity caught the moment very reasonably: a fad should be monetized very quickly, because it's often as quick to fizz out.

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sanderjd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Productizing openclaw. Seems pretty smart. (But probably going to be commoditized pretty quickly.)

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snek_case 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Surely a highly innovative product that will sell in high volumes /s

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mikewarot 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who in their right mind is going to blindly trust an AI like that? There wasn't any review of the numbers, or even a hint of a "sniff test" on the output of the AI?

Would a real person risk their reputation like that?

With regard to the attempted redefinition of a commonly used term, I'm reminded of Gretchen, from the Mean Girls, trying to redefine "Fetch!"[1]

It's just not going to happen.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/quotes/

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bloody-crow an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A few years ago I would not believe that AI would be able to write code better than me. Today I barely write any code, Claude is responsible for 95% of my code output.

Maybe in a couple of iterations, you'd be able to trust the AI to straight up drive your computer with access to all important parts of your digital life most of the time and only occasionally have to manually stop it from wiring all your savings and 401k to a struggling Nigerian prince.

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dhosek 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who’s going to trust an AI like that? Maybe the Meta Superintelligence safety director.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91497841/meta-superintelligence-...

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treetalker 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Who in their right mind is going to blindly trust an AI like that?

… particularly with acts that have legal implications like … well, almost everything, but particularly communication with investors or board members.

If people can get slides or summaries by pushing a button, they don't need others to push the button for them.

	▲	marcus_holmes 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is that 2024 trope of "the AI is turning my 5 bullet points into a proper email to send." "And my AI is summarising all those long boring emails into bullet points!". The slide deck won't be viewed by a human. It'll be read by the human's pet LLM and then summarised into 3 bullet points.

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artdigital an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It took me a while to understand what this is, but if I understand it right it's a OpenClaw you can run on your Mac Mini, to then use through the Perplexity Computer interface (which is their hosted OpenClaw version that you costs credits)

So a more polished OpenClaw that integrates with Perplexity?

In general interesting, if it's not just limited to Mac Minis. Would love to put this on my VPS that's currently running OpenClaw

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aaronbrethorst 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh no, April Fool's Day is going to be tremendously awful this year, isn't it

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ch4s3 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It's been perpetual April 1st since November 30th, 2022.

	▲	fragmede 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		September, surely.

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suobset 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love (read, hate) the trend of using Serif fonts and marketing material that pull on nostalgic vibes. Surely, AI has been revolutionary in its own regard, for better or worse. But, the more they go into 80/90s style advertising, the more the allure of it dies.

Also this "system" just seems vulnerable af.

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bee_rider 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Could it just be a new trend? There are just two options in this case (serifs or no), so I’d expect it to flip back and forth sometimes.

The broader trend is pulling back a bit on “minimalism,” right? I think we hit peak (or valley?) minimalism already so I guess there’s only one way to go.

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suobset 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do agree with you, there is a reverse in the minimalism trends (which I am incredibly happy to see).

However, in my opinion this specific typeface and aesthetic is been taken up by AI companies to harken back to the likes of the 1984 Macintosh ads and such...in an attempt to try and convey that "$(AI_PRODUCT) is just as revolutionary as the first desktop PCs".

	▲	bee_rider 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It does seem especially similar to old Mac ad fonts

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ang_cire 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think you're right. AI is being sold on promises of maximalism, in a way.

Build everything, do anything, give AI all your data and thoughts and system access and it will give you the world!

I'm not surprised our own "roaring" 20s is seeing this shift.

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month13 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Serifs are so back and I'm so excited.

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ghostly_s 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The specific font here is clearly meant to reference the marketing for the original Macintosh.

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ArchieScrivener 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

None of these companies are serious businesses. They are either researchers out of their depth in transforming their work into economically stable products or they are inept CEO scammers pretending that how you sell something is more important than what you sell.

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plastic041 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is this an openclaw alternative that is installed on my mac but runs on their cloud? Or just a VDI?

It's difficult to understand what this is because its name is "Personal Computer", and it seems like their definition of Personal Computer is very different from everyone else's.

Also it's funny that it shows making a revenue report with their brand template. AI can replace HR jobs but they still have to make reports for noble executives? They are basically saying "We won't replace CEOs/executives".

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paxys 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Whatever happened to Preplexity? They were all the rage a year or two ago, and now I hear...nothing. Is the product still being used? Making money? Or just overtaken by the base LLMs it was relying on?

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hbosch 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

When better standalone LLMs got "web crawling skills" integrated, it pretty much destroyed the need to ever lean on PPLX again. Perplexity is actually not a bad product, but other services like ChatGPT and Claude can do it's best thing pretty good, and do other things much better.

One thing I noticed is that whatever harness PPLX wraps around the models, the output is noticeably lower quality in aggregate. I assume some kind of token compression being used before passing your query to a given model but to my knowledge that's never been proven or confirmed?

Anyways, I get the most value out of coding and PPLX has seemingly pivoted away from that. Probably a good play to not try and compete directly with Claude Code/Codex and find a better niche, but I am not sure who or what their market is. Lovely design, however.

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LollipopYakuza 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They have been receiving a lot of hate on Reddit for a few weeks, since they started mass canceling Pro accounts. What seemed to be initially an attempt at preventing illegitimate accounts (aka those using coupons from grey market for instance) escalated into wavesof random accounts suspensions just for not having a credit card set, including legit ones that came as a package with ISP, bank accounts, etc.

	▲	unsignedint 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not only have there been those cancellations, but they’ve also been cutting back features in a lot of areas, especially in the Pro tier, and doing it pretty drastically without any notice. Honestly, I think that might be the bigger issue, particularly since many of the affected users are paying customers, and quite a few of them paid for a full year upfront.

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realityfactchex 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's still there. For Joe Shmoe, in terms of general purpose, ask it a question, LLM use, Perplexity is solidly in the following lineup, as I understand it:

- Perplexity: This one has been promoted on (insert general audience media skewing toward the older set) enough to be a household name still.

- ChatGPT: General people in some demographics (see immediately above) are averse to this, on account of negative publicity its parent company has received. (Still very strong popularity and positive sentiment in some demographics, though)

- Claude: Some semi-literates have glommed onto this one, possibly as a result of its more recent success among the developer set.

- Grok: People can be either for or against, based on how they feel about its owning company and its ownership; no more need be said

- Gemini: Again, if you are in the universe of its owning company (or decidedly not), the draw (or repulsion) can be strong here.

For general LLM use, the above are all about the same. To be clear, this is just me shooting from the hip for how each offering might be viewed. IMO, it's not a bad idea to submit the same input to each and see how they compare, if one is so inclined.

	▲	w4der 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Funny how you didn't even mention MS Copilot, which many of my friends who work for big corporations seem to have been forced to use at work, and as a consequence, also for personal use.

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QQ00 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Openclaw + Microsoft Recall = Personal computer by perplexity. At least this is my interpretation from reading that web page.

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password54321 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No moat. If you rely on OpenAI / Google / Anthropic you are doomed.

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chrismarlow9 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you feel the same about AWS?

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horsawlarway 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Personally - yes.

They may not come after all the niche companies, but they definitely come after the most successful markets, especially those with low effort moats.

Same goes for relying on the Apple/Google app stores (ex - Apple literally got slapped in court for copying successful apps and then pushing their offering to the top of their stores... talk about wildly abusive behavior).

I may still choose to use AWS/GCP/Azure while trying to find product-market fit as an immature startup, but I'd look real, REAL hard at ditching them as soon as possible afterwards.

Unless you have particularly bursty workloads, they aren't even a good cost saving measure anymore.

	▲	hsuduebc2 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Amazon do absolutely the same, they just rip off products with best margin and lowest effort and start them reselling themselves. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-i...

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paxys 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which side are you implying AWS is on?

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gensym 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Zombo.com

	▲	seeingnature 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can do anything on zombocom I thought of zombo.com the other day and booted it up. There is maybe no other website that continues to bring me as much joy as zombocom
	▲	viksit 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		underrated comment haha. made my day

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SirensOfTitan 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative.

Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-response chat paradigm. I don't understand why VCs continue to fund these ai-slop companies. I see a new company's advertisements on the NY subway every week, and they're all the same: Anthropic/Google/OpenAI resellers who are selling some UI wrapper (or at best a bespoke model worse than the flagships) on top of pretty basic prompt engineering or tools.

This is what happens when we invert the product-paradigm: we're not solving problems with technology, we're taking technology and applying it to problems.

I use AI every day, so I'm hardly a luddite, but this bubble is so ridiculous at this point. This perplexity product, more than any other so far, feels so representative of peak craze.

	▲	ryandrake 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd be willing to bet that every wannabe CEO out there is spooging after seeing that demo. That's clearly the target market: The wantrepreneurs who would surely have their brilliant successful business if only they didn't have to hire a bunch of lazy employees to half-ass it! "If only I could just speak my vague ideas to my computer, and it could do all the hard work of building and running this business, I could just chill out, be an entrepreneur on Insta, and collect the revenue checks.

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imcritic 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does anyone else get a problem with perplexity where its pages get completely frozen/unresponsive until you close the tab and reopen it? And most of the time the issue comes back in just a few seconds. This seems to happen if one opens more than 1 tab with perplexity in parallel.

	▲	prab97 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Works perfectly on my machine!

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skyberrys 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I need someone who can translate marketing to help me out here. All the other comments seem equally baffled as to what this is. This is clashing with my idea of a personal computer with an AI operating system. Did anyone figure out what chip it uses, if it's local only, does it have a screen or do I plug in peripherals?

	▲	g-b-r 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mac Mini connected to their "secure servers", so of course it's the opposite of the claimed local and private...

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claysmithr 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wow they designed a computer I don’t want

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Zambyte 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Personal Computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 24/7, connected to your local apps and Perplexity’s secure servers.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer

They designed a program (copied OpenClaw) and called it a computer

	▲	neal_jones 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yea, but since they link to a page where they describe openclaw as “malware reading your text messages” I’m assuming they like to think of this as something more evolved

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ncr100 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Say more?

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waldothedog an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Curious if this page is weirdly cropped on the sides for anyone else?

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ProllyInfamous 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perplexity.ai 's main login-less search/chatbot is my personal favorite online LLM.

I would be willing to try this new product of theirs, but definitely on a secondary computer (i.e. not main system).

Do I have to sign up to install their version of an OS/openclaw?

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par 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

read it and have no idea what it does

	▲	cedws 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's an LLM wrapper.

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microsoftedging 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The computer still computes. But now, for the first time, the computer lives with you.

No, it doesn't, because it's not alive.

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gtowey 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> There is a kill switch

...because this thing will go rogue faster than you can blink.

I swear, it's like nobody at the company even reads the slop they're generating or thinks about it for any amount of time. In what world is advertising a kill switch as one of its essential features a positive? It's basically admitting from the start that this is unreliable.

	▲	observationist 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They replaced their production staff with clawbot, it's all part of the plan. There's a sense of "early bitcoin" around clawbot and other agent frameworks. I think if you wait for another 2 years for it to mature, you'll have missed out as if you waited ten years after bitcoin began. They're insecure and janky, sure, but on the other hand you've got millions of dollars of compute and tens of thousands of very motivated developers working on making them secure, reliable, and competent. There's something magical about AI that actually gets real work done while you're doing other things, and that's what Perplexity is probably hoping to sell. Just need a reliable local model, though - AirLLM, other hacks allow you to run bigger models more slowly, so you can build out a completely API-free scheme to run pretty capable agents even without big GPUs. Could be a Moravec's paradox thing - all these people are thinking that the solution looks enticingly within reach, but it might be an absolutely horribly complicated quagmire with no easy solution short of AGI. I'd bet on clawbots and agents being very secure and great to work with in the very near term, though.

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jkestner 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sneaky use of an almost Garamond, but the copy ain't Chiat\Day.

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tartoran 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Page is unreabable on smaller phone such as my IPhone SE as text gets cropped out on the sides and cannot be zoomed out. Did I miss anything?

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nlpart11 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So basically a thin client where all the data is in the "AI cloud" and you are at the mercy of the mainframe provider. What again happened to "the network is the computer" Sun Microsystems?

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maxaw 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most perplexing product description I’ve read in some time from a major company

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irusensei 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Personal Computer

>Depends on our SaaS

Pick one.

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eitally 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ten years ago I would have thought this was an excellent April Fool's Day launch. Now I just think it's foolish.

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dakial1 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So Perplexity's openclaw? Hopefully more secure?

	▲	georgemcbay 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> So Perplexity's openclaw? Hopefully more secure? Given the inherent unpredictability of LLMs, I'm not convinced that an openclaw-like system but with more security features bolted on top is really a positive in the sense that the false sense of absolute security probably outweighs whatever actual security has been added. It is easier to understand that openclaw is definitely insecure.

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ChrisArchitect 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Blog post: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer

	▲	echoangle 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Is that a reference to Trump in the Tesla? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9fza3s

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nxtfari 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it’s not ZIRP anymore but it might as well be. you can truly get funded to make anything right now

	▲	imcritic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not ZIRP, it's FLOMA.

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dogmatism 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

hell no

I don't think I'm cut out for the modern world

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brtkwr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's another trending HN thread talking about a similar product but cloud based going by the name of Klaus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337249

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anon115 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

whole lot of noise, alots more problems

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mhitza 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The video concept is great, and how I often have been thinking that personal digital assistants would make sense.

Basing this concept on what we have today with LLMs is a call for chaos, unreliability and slop communication; at best.

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znpy 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m not sure i understand this, is this some kind of corporate openclaw?

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nice_byte 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is such disappointing clickbait. i thought it was a hardware product.

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d--b 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OH so that's why it's called Perplexity!

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bisonbear 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

sounds like it's another openclaw-as-a-service provider?

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paxys 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TL;DR - Perplexity-branded OpenClaw

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HumanOstrich 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Stop posting AI slop, especially slop pull requests like the one you made to OpenClaw. Learn the first thing about a project you want to monetize and make fake contributions to. For example, OpenClaw is overwhelmed with slop PRs and the author has talked about this a lot.

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d_silin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is an OS with AI chat interface, as far as I can understand.

	▲	g-b-r 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, they sure made their own OS