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Perplexity's Always-On AI PC, NVIDIA's 120B Reasoning Model, and the Great Chip Decoupling — 25 June 2026

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Published 2026-06-25
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Perplexity's Personal Computer: AI That Never Sleeps

Perplexity has released a software system (not physical hardware) that runs a persistent AI agent on compact machines like the Mac Mini, operating 24/7 in the background to anticipate and assist with your work. This isn't a standalone device—it's a background service designed to integrate deeply into everyday computing. It matters because it signals a shift from conversational chatbots you summon on demand to always-on systems that learn your workflow and act proactively, which could reshape how users interact with AI entirely. If it works reliably, it represents the first mainstream implementation of what researchers have been theorising for years: ambient intelligence.

NVIDIA's 120B Nemotron 3 Super: A Reasoning Model Built for Multi-Agent Chaos

NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter reasoning model explicitly engineered for orchestrating teams of AI agents—not just single agents tasked with individual jobs. The move signals NVIDIA's bet that the future isn't faster inference on single models, but the ability to coordinate dozens of specialised agents working in parallel on complex problems. This matters to anyone building agentic systems because it trades some raw speed for reasoning depth and orchestration capabilities. The timing is telling: as everyone else races to deploy agents, NVIDIA is building the infrastructure layer that makes multi-agent collaboration actually work.

China Bans Foreign AI Chips From State Data Centres—Escalating the Decoupling

The Chinese government has mandated that all newly funded state data centre initiatives must use only domestically produced AI chips, marking the sharpest escalation yet in the global semiconductor rivalry. This isn't rhetoric—it's a policy forcing domestic procurement across state infrastructure. The stakes are enormous: China controls rare materials critical to chip manufacturing, while the West controls advanced chip design; both sides are now preparing for long-term disconnection. For anyone betting on a unified global AI supply chain, this is a warning that geography and politics now trump pure economics.

Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8–10 Billion

Qualcomm is pursuing an acquisition of AI chipmaker Tenstorrent at a reported valuation of $8–10 billion, a move designed to shore up its competitive position against NVIDIA and custom silicon from OpenAI, Tesla, and others. Tenstorrent has quietly built a modular chip architecture that runs AI workloads efficiently without lock-in to proprietary frameworks, making it strategically valuable in a world where every major AI company now wants its own silicon. This acquisition signals that the era of general-purpose chips powering AI is over—the future belongs to specialists, and consolidation has begun.

OpenAI's Custom Chip 'Jalapeño' Enters Production

OpenAI unveiled its first custom inference chip, built in partnership with Broadcom, named Jalapeño. Unlike training chips (which remain GPU-dominated), this is engineered specifically for running inference at scale—the expensive part that happens after models are trained. The chip is a direct challenge to NVIDIA's grip on inference economics and signals that every major AI lab now sees silicon design as core strategy, not outsourcing. For users, it could mean cheaper API calls; for NVIDIA, it's pressure on the last major revenue pillar still under its control.

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government: Lawsuits Over AI in Defence

Anthropic has filed lawsuits against the U.S. government after being placed on a technology blacklist due to disagreements over whether its models should be used in defence and national security applications. The company is simultaneously facing accusations from Alibaba of conducting what researchers are calling the largest known distillation attack—extracting proprietary model capabilities through fine-tuning and reverse-engineering. Anthropic is caught between geopolitical pressure from the U.S. (use your models for defence) and competition from global rivals (who are allegedly cloning them). This exposes a hard truth: claiming ethical principles around AI deployment collides immediately with state power and corporate espionage.

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Perplexity has quietly launched a personal computer system running continuous AI agents in the background, NVIDIA unveiled a monster reasoning model built for multi-agent systems, and China just banned foreign AI chips from state data centres—marking the sharpest geopolitical split yet in AI infrastructure.

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It covers: Perplexity's Personal Computer: AI That Never Sleeps; NVIDIA's 120B Nemotron 3 Super: A Reasoning Model Built for Multi-Agent Chaos; China Bans Foreign AI Chips From State Data Centres—Escalating the Decoupling; Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8–10 Billion; OpenAI's Custom Chip 'Jalapeño' Enters Production; Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government: Lawsuits Over AI in Defence.

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