Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch

Running an LLM on your PC is easy enough , but putting an agent to work there is a different story. Portable Computer, the local version of Perplexity’s Computer agent, is now available inside the Perplexity app for Windows on compatible Nvidia GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs. That’s the good news; the catch is, you’ll need an Nvidia GPU with at least 24GB of VRAM. The Windows launch gives Perplexity three platforms in less than three weeks. Portable Computer debuted on Linux and Nvidia DGX Spark on August 25, followed a week later by hybrid compute for Apple silicon , which splits tasks between...

Source: The New Stack

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