Perplexity AI Updates: May 9, 2026

1. Perplexity opens its Personal Computer agent to all Mac users

Perplexity. Perplexity dropped the $200/month Max gate on its Personal Computer agent and rolled it out to all Pro and Max subscribers via a native Mac app that can act across local files, third-party apps, the web, and Perplexity’s own infrastructure. Under the hood the assistant routes work between models — Gemini for deep research, Nano Banana for image tasks, and ChatGPT for long-context recall and broad search — making it one of the more visible production examples of a multi-model agent fronting a single product surface. Source