Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the startup is rolling out a new AI system that prioritizes users’ data security and trust.
In a new episode of the All-In Podcast, Srinivas says the Perplexity Personal Computer builds on the firm’s goal of developing the most accurate AI.
According to Srinivas, Perplexity Personal Computer will keep user data out of the hands of AI model providers, such as Anthropic and OpenAI, by running agents on a local Mac Mini server.
“That’s essentially going to take all the trust and reliability and the server-side execution of Perplexity Computer, but synchronize it with your local computer so that you can use it from your phone. And we’re going to do this with the Mac Mini, where you synchronize your computer with the Mac Mini, so that becomes your local server. All the agent orchestration that has to do with your local private data will run on that local orchestration loop, that runtime with the Mac Mini…
It could still ping frontier models if it needs to, with your permission, but it will be orchestrating everything on your local hardware. And if it needs to run on the server-side hardware, if you don’t want very complicated, long-running tasks to be running on your local hardware, you can delegate it to run on your server-side computer, which is again only accessible to you and you alone. So that way, we’re going to bring this perfect hybrid between local and server-side.”
The Perplexity CEO also says Perplexity Personal Computer will be very easy to implement, as users will only need to run one executable file.
“It’s like OpenClaw for dummies. Nobody needs to learn how to use it. Nobody needs to manage API keys. Nobody needs to manage separate billing across like 100 different services. Figure out what you can give access to and not access to. We take care of that. So it’s a Steve Jobs way of doing it, end-to-end integration.”
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