🤯 Perplexity Just Turned Your Mac Mini Into an Autonomous AI Agent (And It Never Sleeps)

We’ve spent the last few years chatting with AI inside browser tabs. But the era of the "Cloud Chatbot" is evolving into something far powerful - and depending on your perspective, slightly terrifying. Perplexity has just unveiled "Personal Computer", a local agentic AI platform that lives on your machine (ideally a Mac Mini), accesses your local apps and files, and works continuously in the background. Here is a breakdown of what this means for developers, the architecture behind it, and why the local AI race is suddenly heating up.