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Perplexity has launched a local-first agentic system on NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware, enabling enterprises to run complex reasoning tasks without incurring per-token costs for local steps. This deployment prioritizes data residency and confidentiality by executing models and tools within an OS-enforced sandbox before selectively querying cloud resources only when necessary. The release targets industries like finance and defense where keeping sensitive data off public clouds is a strict requirement.
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps

Perplexity releases Portable Computer, packaging local models, harness, sandbox, and connectors into one system running on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The post Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner, tool router and post-trained models directly on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The local model, inference engine, tool sandbox and app connectors ship as one packaged system, every task begins on the device, and work handled by local models carries no per-token charge. When a step needs the live web or frontier reasoning, the orchestrator stops and asks before sending that single step to one of 15+ cloud models. Is it…
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