PERPLEXITY AND NVIDIA UNVEIL "PORTABLE COMPUTER" FOR OFFLINE LOCAL AI EXECUTION

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Perplexity has partnered with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, an agentic Computer platform designed to execute advanced AI agent workflows entirely on-device without continuous cloud API dependency or recurring token costs. Powered by Nvidia's compact edge silicon architecture, the system runs quantized local inference models to process multimodal search, complex reasoning, and persistent agentic tasks directly at the edge.