Perplexity launches Portable Computer local agent on NVIDIA DGX Spark
Portable Computer runs the entire agent runtime locally on DGX Spark, with a post-trained PPLX 27B model scoring 85.4% on real knowledge work. It offers zero per-token cost for local steps and supports Qwen 3.8 27B, with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning coming soon.
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4 days · 5 reports · 13 community posts · from Aug 25
- Aug 25
Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costsventurebeat.com
Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford itthenewstack.io
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Stepsmarktechpost.com
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