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Local agent execution is now a feature, not a standalone product
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack3w ago
Perplexity is verticalizing the agent stack by bundling orchestration and sandboxing directly onto local NVIDIA hardware. You must decide if your agent's value lies in cloud-powered scale or if you need to match this local privacy and latency baseline.
Takeaways
- Perplexity bundles orchestration, tools, and sandboxing into a native local Windows application.
- High-end NVIDIA hardware is now the baseline for local agentic performance.
- The move shifts the competitive landscape toward local-first privacy and orchestration standards.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch
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