Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer.

Perplexity just announced its own AI agent, Personal Computer, that runs on Mac mini and can complete various tasks for you.

Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people.

What if your desk could rival a data center? Imagine a compact machine, no bigger than a shoebox, capable of powering through AI model training, large-scale simulations, and natural language ...