๐จ Perplexity just made every AI company look stupid with one announcement.
They're shipping a Mac mini that never turns off. You plug it in, leave it on, and it works through your files, apps, emails, calendar, 24 hours a day. While you sleep, while you eat, while you're on vacation, it's working.
> A full-time employee with a power cord sitting next to your coffee mug with no salary, no sick days, no meetings about meetings.
> Your company pays you $80K a year to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Perplexity just offered them something that works 24/7 and probably costs less than your monthly health insurance.
But the part that gave me chills is the name. They called it "Personal Computer."
The last time someone used that name was IBM in 1981. That machine killed typewriters, killed secretaries, killed filing clerks, killed an entire generation of office jobs.
They didn't call this an "assistant" or a "copilot." They named it after the thing that already replaced millions of jobs once before.
Same name. Same playbook. Different body count.
And they know exactly what they're doing.
Announcing Personal Computer.
Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7.
It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.