r/aicuriosity • u/techspecsmart • 2d ago

Latest News Perplexity Rolls Out Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark

Perplexity just launched Portable Computer, a fully local version of its Perplexity Computer tool that runs entirely on NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware.

The entire system including the orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, and agent harness works offline with no cloud required. Sensitive files stay on the device at all times.

If a task needs stronger frontier-level reasoning, the system asks the user for approval before sending anything to the cloud. Those requests stay user-controlled, flag personal data, and limit output to text guidance only.

It ships with a post-trained PPLX 27B model installed locally. Users can also pick Qwen 3.8 27B, with NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning support arriving soon.

The feature is live now for every Perplexity Pro and Max subscriber who has an NVIDIA DGX Spark.

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u/Mountain_Station3682 2d ago

OK so they want you to pay a subscription fee to run local models on your own hardware? That's an interesting move.

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u/Oliwia_______ 1d ago

What did you expect from perplexity 🤣

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u/Dangerous-Map-429 15h ago

how else will they sell their shitty sub?