Personal Computer opens Windows waitlist for Max and Enterprise Max users

• Perplexity opened the Personal Computer for Windows waitlist to paying Max and Enterprise Max users, and perplexity_ai's rollout post says the app runs locally on a Windows machine across apps and files.
• The official Windows product page, echoed by perplexity_ai's waitlist link, frames this as a desktop agent for local folders, Microsoft apps, and the web, with approved-folder access instead of broad filesystem access.
• Perplexity is pairing the Windows rollout with a second feature, because perplexity_ai's hybrid inference post says Perplexity Computer will split work between on-device models and frontier cloud models.
• The linked hybrid inference blog post, plus AravSrinivas's note, says the goal is to keep sensitive data on-device while using server GPUs only when a task needs more capability.

You can join the waitlist, skim Perplexity's hybrid inference writeup, and cross-check the Computex framing in Intel's keynote recap. The useful bit is that Perplexity is shipping the Windows surface now, while the local-cloud router it keeps teasing is still labeled "coming soon" in perplexity_ai's hybrid inference post.

The Windows product page says Personal Computer runs on the local desktop, can launch from anywhere, and works across Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, OneDrive, and the web. According to the waitlist link post, rollout starts with paying Max and Enterprise Max customers.

Perplexity also added remote execution to the pitch. The same product page says you can start a task from a phone or another machine and let the Windows desktop finish it.

Perplexity is selling this as scoped access, not open-ended control of the PC. The product page says the agent only reads from folders, files, and apps the user approves, and lists folder scoping, per-user permissions, and activity logs for IT.

That matters because the Windows app is aimed at document-heavy Microsoft workflows. Perplexity's own copy says the agent can open, read, and edit files in approved folders, then keep working inside Office apps instead of bouncing answers back into a browser tab.

Perplexity's second announcement is the more interesting systems reveal. In the company blog post, Perplexity says Personal Computer will automatically split a task so sensitive or routine parts stay local, while heavier steps go to cloud agents.

The post is unusually concrete about the tradeoff it is optimizing:

• privacy, for work involving financial records, health information, and personal files
• cost and energy, by avoiding frontier-model compute on smaller tasks
• capability, by escalating only the steps that need server-side models

Perplexity says local inference is coming in July, while Intel's Computex recap adds that the orchestrator was pitched as dynamic routing based on device capabilities and features. The same blog post says the harness is model-agnostic and already runs across Intel hardware and NVIDIA RTX Spark, which is a different claim from a Windows-only app launch.