'The data center is coming to your laptop,' says Perplexity CEO

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas described a chip- and model-agnostic “Perplexity computer” that will orchestrate AI across local devices and data center GPUs. The company announced hybrid agent inference with Intel and a Microsoft partnership to bundle Perplexity integrations into Microsoft 365, with a Windows personal-computer app to be announced imminently and shipped later this month. Srinivas highlighted rapid commercial traction — roughly 3x revenue growth since the start of the year driven by model advances — and argued the neutral orchestration layer benefits multiple hardware and model providers (Intel, Nvidia, Apple). Market impact: the Microsoft integration could strengthen MSFT’s AI ecosystem and drive adoption of on-device + cloud hybrid AI, while Intel, Nvidia and Apple stand to be implicated by demand for varied local and server chips.