AMD delivers AI compute across a broad range of platforms, turning innovation into real-world impact. In 2023, AMD introduced the first AI PCs, with the first dedicated NPU in an x86 processor. In 2025, AMD introduced agentic PCs with systems capable of running AI agents locally. Now AMD expands those capabilities into the applications and workflows people use every day.
Today, Perplexity announced that Portable Computer is available on supported Windows PCs powered by AMD Ryzen™ AI Max Series processors, including the AMD Ryzen™ AI Halo developer platform. Users can run local AI tasks and recurring workflows on their own hardware without using Perplexity Computer credits for inference.
“We’re entering a new era of computing, where personal AI transforms the PC from a tool into an intelligent partner. We’re creating a new kind of agentic PC that can understand, reason and act alongside us,” said Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Group at AMD. “With Perplexity Portable Computer running on systems powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max Series processors – including the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform – powerful AI models and agents can run directly on the PC and work across the applications and workflows people use every day with the flexibility to run AI locally and tap into frontier-scale reasoning when needed. Together with Perplexity, we’re redefining what the PC can be in the Personal AI Era: personal, powerful, open and intelligent by design. This is more than a new generation of PCs. It’s a new generation of computing.”
AMD Ryzen AI Max processors bring CPU and GPU performance together with a large pool of shared memory to run local models alongside everyday applications. Perplexity brings the model, agent tools and controls together in Portable Computer, giving users a straightforward way to put that hardware to work. Together, they make agentic PCs practical for local AI workflows, with the flexibility to use the cloud when it makes sense.
Read more from Perplexity in its blog, “Portable Computer comes to AMD-Powered Agentic PCs,” and learn about Portable Computer on Perplexity's website.
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