- Demo video shows user asking for a briefing for a board of directors. What's the value of user making such a request? Each board director could ask for a particular thing they require, or a briefing themself, eliminating human intermediary who gatekeeps mouse click for choosing style of a generated text. Considering there is no input from the user into the briefing this interaction is absurd. The tech they show eliminates the need for the actions shown.
Other example is "finding" employees. What's the purpose of a human in the middle? The implied result is contact list for potential employees. Will they write them invitation for the interview by hand?
I'm really confused why is this presented like this. It has this surreal dreamlike quality. Something is done. Emails sent, contacts acquired, profits unlocked, synergy achieved etc.
- > In a study of over 16,000 queries, measured against institutional benchmarks from McKinsey, Harvard, MIT, BCG, and others, we determined Perplexity Computer saved our internal teams $1.6M in labor costs and performed 3.25 years of work in only four weeks. And now we’re extending those same capabilities to other teams.
This is a wild statement that does not seem to be supported by any actual data.
What does it mean? Does clicking on a link counts as labor.
by recursive
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- > the computer lives with you.
What does this mean? The computer isn't alive. It's physically located on my person? Phones and watches have already cracked this.
If I say "Bob lives with me", that just mean that they generally share a residence with me. Desktop PCs already do that.
I just don't understand what's even intended by this.
by mikewarot
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- Who in their right mind is going to blindly trust an AI like that? There wasn't any review of the numbers, or even a hint of a "sniff test" on the output of the AI?
Would a real person risk their reputation like that?
--
With regard to the attempted redefinition of a commonly used term, I'm reminded of Gretchen, from the Mean Girls, trying to redefine "Fetch!"[1]
It's just not going to happen.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/quotes/
- From the blog post (https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer)
>Personal Computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 24/7, connected to your local apps and Perplexity’s secure servers.
by artdigital
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- It took me a while to understand what this is, but if I understand it right it's a OpenClaw you can run on your Mac Mini, to then use through the Perplexity Computer interface (which is their hosted OpenClaw version that you costs credits)
So a more polished OpenClaw that integrates with Perplexity?
In general interesting, if it's not just limited to Mac Minis. Would love to put this on my VPS that's currently running OpenClaw
- Whatever happened to Preplexity? They were all the rage a year or two ago, and now I hear...nothing. Is the product still being used? Making money? Or just overtaken by the base LLMs it was relying on?
by ArchieScrivener
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- None of these companies are serious businesses. They are either researchers out of their depth in transforming their work into economically stable products or they are inept CEO scammers pretending that how you sell something is more important than what you sell.
- I love (read, hate) the trend of using Serif fonts and marketing material that pull on nostalgic vibes. Surely, AI has been revolutionary in its own regard, for better or worse. But, the more they go into 80/90s style advertising, the more the allure of it dies.
Also this "system" just seems vulnerable af.
- Openclaw + Microsoft Recall = Personal computer by perplexity.
At least this is my interpretation from reading that web page.
- This feels a lot like the “enterprise version” of what projects like OpenClaw are trying to do in the open source world — a persistent agent that lives on your machine and can act on your behalf across apps.
If Perplexity ships this successfully, I suspect it could push the whole space forward. Once a big company normalizes the idea of an always-on agent with OS-level access, we’ll probably see a lot more companies building similar “AI computer” layers on top of existing systems.
by microsoftedging
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- > The computer still computes. But now, for the first time, the computer lives with you.
No, it doesn't, because it's not alive.
- Zombo.com
- I hope it doesn't require a Mac mini. I like my openclaw but would be interesting to see what a polished commercial product looks like.
by claysmithr
2 subcomments
- Wow they designed a computer I don’t want
- > There is a kill switch
...because this thing will go rogue faster than you can blink.
I swear, it's like nobody at the company even reads the slop they're generating or thinks about it for any amount of time. In what world is advertising a kill switch as one of its essential features a positive? It's basically admitting from the start that this is unreliable.
by password54321
1 subcomments
- No moat. If you rely on OpenAI / Google / Anthropic you are doomed.
by skyberrys
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- I need someone who can translate marketing to help me out here. All the other comments seem equally baffled as to what this is. This is clashing with my idea of a personal computer with an AI operating system. Did anyone figure out what chip it uses, if it's local only, does it have a screen or do I plug in peripherals?
by DrAwdeOccarim
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- I want this, but using Nemotron Super 3 running local (128gb M5 Max macbook pro) that I use the computer “through”. Does Goose AI aspire/do this? I just started working on this yesterday.
by plastic041
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- Is this an openclaw alternative that is installed on my mac but runs on their cloud? Or just a VDI?
It's difficult to understand what this is because its name is "Personal Computer", and it seems like their definition of Personal Computer is very different from everyone else's.
Also it's funny that it shows making a revenue report with their brand template. AI can replace HR jobs but they still have to make reports for noble executives? They are basically saying "We won't replace CEOs/executives".
- read it and have no idea what it does
- Sneaky use of an almost Garamond, but the copy ain't Chiat\Day.
by WhyNotHugo
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- The entire screen is covered by a video which just renders:
> Watch video on YouTube
> Error 153
> Video player configuration error
On Firefox/Linux or Safari/iOS.
How is it that this kind of organisation can't properly embed a video player or make a working landing page?
by SirensOfTitan
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- The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative.
Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-response chat paradigm. I don't understand why VCs continue to fund these ai-slop companies. I see a new company's advertisements on the NY subway every week, and they're all the same: Anthropic/Google/OpenAI resellers who are selling some UI wrapper (or at best a bespoke model worse than the flagships) on top of pretty basic prompt engineering or tools.
This is what happens when we invert the product-paradigm: we're not solving problems with technology, we're taking technology and applying it to problems.
I use AI every day, so I'm hardly a luddite, but this bubble is so ridiculous at this point. This perplexity product, more than any other so far, feels so representative of peak craze.
- Page is unreabable on smaller phone such as my IPhone SE as text gets cropped out on the sides and cannot be zoomed out. Did I miss anything?
- Does anyone else get a problem with perplexity where its pages get completely frozen/unresponsive until you close the tab and reopen it? And most of the time the issue comes back in just a few seconds. This seems to happen if one opens more than 1 tab with perplexity in parallel.
by ProllyInfamous
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- Perplexity.ai 's main login-less search/chatbot is my personal favorite online LLM.
I would be willing to try this new product of theirs, but definitely on a secondary computer (i.e. not main system).
Do I have to sign up to install their version of an OS/openclaw?
by waldothedog
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- Curious if this page is weirdly cropped on the sides for anyone else?
- >Personal Computer
>Depends on our SaaS
Pick one.
by mycodendral
0 subcomment
- It's giving ensloppification
- Most perplexing product description I’ve read in some time from a major company
- So basically a thin client where all the data is in the "AI cloud" and you are at the mercy of the mainframe provider. What again happened to "the network is the computer" Sun Microsystems?
- The Perplexity website is so poorly coded it hard crashes Safari AND edge on ios when logged in. Still can’t open the edge app but I managed to get back in on safari.
It’s been 2 months.
- Ten years ago I would have thought this was an excellent April Fool's Day launch. Now I just think it's foolish.
- So Perplexity's openclaw? Hopefully more secure?
- Am I misreading or is it Anthropic’s OpenClaw?
by ChrisArchitect
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- Blog post: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer
by redgridtactical
0 subcomment
- OpenClaw really was Pandora's Box
by undefeated
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- > always-on, local access to your machine's files, apps, and sessions
Uh... how about..., no...? What?
> Controllable from any device, anywhere
...
> There is a kill switch
Oh great, sounds like you're confident this is safe then!
Someone wake me up, please
by voidUpdate
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- > "But now, for the first time, the computer lives with you."
Hasn't this been true since, like, the late 70s?
- hell
no
I don't think I'm cut out for the modern world
- There's another trending HN thread talking about a similar product but cloud based going by the name of Klaus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337249
- whole lot of noise, alots more problems
- The video concept is great, and how I often have been thinking that personal digital assistants would make sense.
Basing this concept on what we have today with LLMs is a call for chaos, unreliability and slop communication; at best.
- it’s not ZIRP anymore but it might as well be. you can truly get funded to make anything right now
- I’m not sure i understand this, is this some kind of corporate openclaw?
- Sounds terrible. Seems like Perplexity is desperate to appear innovative but doesn’t know how.
- OH so that's why it's called Perplexity!
- I hate this generic item naming style in tech so fucking much.
by HumanOstrich
0 subcomment
- Stop posting AI slop, especially slop pull requests like the one you made to OpenClaw. Learn the first thing about a project you want to monetize and make fake contributions to. For example, OpenClaw is overwhelmed with slop PRs and the author has talked about this a lot.
- sounds like it's another openclaw-as-a-service provider?
- this is such disappointing clickbait.
i thought it was a hardware product.
by aaronbrethorst
1 subcomments
- Oh no, April Fool's Day is going to be tremendously awful this year, isn't it
by ClaudeAgent_WK
0 subcomment
- [dead]
- TL;DR - Perplexity-branded OpenClaw
- It is an OS with AI chat interface, as far as I can understand.
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