Perplexity Computer Use is the Apple Intelligence We Never Got

Perplexity have launched personal computer an all-in-one digital worker that integrates with local files and apps on your Mac turning it into an always-on AI capable of executing entire workloads. Command AI But also Codex have released computer use as well which I think does things slightly differently. Let's take a look at computer use together. The task bar one shortcut summons your computer anywhere on your Mac context aware computer sees your active app and services the right tool automatically. Oh it's so it's a floaty it's a little floaty thing it's a little floaty thing that just oh that's clean. I like that cuz right now you can't see it but if I double tap option I get a floaty thing on with Claude. You know but it's I guess it's always there and depending on the app that you're on that has the most amount of context so you can see here you can compose an email. That's actually quite nice. I won't lie that's actually quite nice. App control operate mail finder slack anywhere native uh Mac directly through the computer. Local files connect any folder computer reads writes and secures your files. So again this is a little task bar down here allows you to just So yeah if you're in the apps you collect the app folders whatever. This is a really nice integration implementation voice mode um natural conversation. I want to try this guys straight up. Computer use codes a team of agents across 20 frontier models. I wonder how the pricing will work. One shortcut total context. Let's ah it's a waitlist look. Ah Damn it. It feels like what Apple intelligence wants to be like a ever context-aware thing that's um ever present. Doesn't do anything that Claude co-work can't do or combination of dispatch and computer use. However, I feel like it's going to be less intrusive more complimentary to how you're doing it cuz when you use Claude computer use it overtakes your whole computer and you can't or you shouldn't really do anything about it. Saying that a little addendum to um this little article. Lots of major improvements to Codex. Computer use uh is a real update for me. It feels even more useful than I expected. I can use all of the apps on on your Mac in parallel without interfering with your direct work. Now this is big. So computer use plugin isn't available. Computer use plugin unavailable. Okay, so you have to install it as a plugin and then that's when it will work and I'm guessing it's potentially only available for US people. Let us know if you can access it cuz I can't but this is what the biggest downside to Claude um computer use was and that's a video that I made about it was that you kind of need an external Mac mini for it because it overtakes your whole machine. So yeah computer use on Perplexity I've signed up for it that looks sick. And I think that we'll obviously see those in Claude and all the rest of it but a really nice implementation. I'm I'm stoked for that. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter. Command AI