Apple sent a greeting to Perplexity during its Q2 2026 earnings call yesterday, and now the company is providing more details on why it built the Mac-focused Personal Computer platform. Here are the details.
Emphasis on Personal Computer in Apple's Earnings Call
Last month, Perplexity announced the Personal Computer, essentially built to run on a Mac mini (though it can work on any Mac), serving as a personal assistant for users in local and cloud environments.
Perplexity states the following about the Personal Computer:
The Personal Computer is the future of work. It brings multi-model orchestration to your own machine, working across local files, applications, and the web in a single system. It runs 24/7 on a Mac mini, allowing you to start work from your phone and find it completed when you return.
According to the company, the biggest advantage of the Personal Computer is its acceptance that a useful AI agent should work in local and cloud environments; it should not be limited to "working in an isolated virtual machine next to your chat window or applications."
Perplexity adds that the Personal Computer "provides the continuity that Apple users expect to be able to get their work done no matter where they are."
Yesterday, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh mentioned the product during Apple's Q2 2026 earnings call, citing it as an example of how developers prefer Mac for "enterprise-level AI assistants":
With Apple silicon and this powerful unified memory architecture, leading AI developers like Perplexity choose Mac as their preferred platform to build enterprise-level AI assistants that empower autonomous agents and enhance workplace productivity.
This comment came in the context of the success of agency platforms like the Personal Computer, which has led to the Mac mini and Mac Studio being sold out in many countries worldwide. Apple later confirmed that existing stocks would remain extremely limited for several months.
Interestingly, Parekh's comment came shortly after Perplexity's invitation-only Ask NYC event, where the company's CEO Aravind Srinivas emphasized that the Personal Computer was "built to work on any Mac, with the Mac mini being one of the best ways to deploy at full capacity."
He also shared that since the launch, the Personal Computer has "done more than $2.8 billion in workforce equivalent work for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers."
At the event, Perplexity also announced a series of enterprise-focused updates for the Personal Computer, including Microsoft Teams support, native Excel integration currently in beta, new workflow features for repeatable tasks, and deeper data connections with Snowflake and Databricks.
Perplexity also announced a partnership with 1Password to enable the Personal Computer to work within authenticated tools without exposing user credentials to the model.
Follow this link to learn what’s next for Perplexity's Personal Computer.
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