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Meta AI Takes Over Facebook Marketplace: Sellers Can Now Auto-Reply to 'Is This Still Available?'
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Meta AI Takes Over Facebook Marketplace: Sellers Can Now Auto-Reply to 'Is This Still Available?'

Meta has deployed AI-powered auto-reply functionality to Facebook Marketplace, allowing sellers to enable Meta AI to automatically respond to buyer inquiries on their behalf — starting with the question that has defined the Marketplace experience for a decade: 'Is this still available?' The feature uses information from the listing itself — price, condition, pickup location, availability — to draft contextually accurate replies, with sellers able to review and customize responses before they go live or enable fully automated mode. The rollout is part of a broader package of Marketplace AI enhancements that includes AI-assisted listing creation, smart pricing recommendations based on comparable local sales, and an intelligent offer negotiation tool. For the estimated 1.1 billion monthly Marketplace users, the update meaningfully reduces the friction that has caused high seller abandonment rates — and for Meta, it represents another surface area where AI can drive engagement and transaction volume without requiring users to leave its apps.

James LiuJames Liu2 min read
Perplexity Launches 'Personal Computer' — An Always-On AI Agent for $200 a Month
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Perplexity Launches 'Personal Computer' — An Always-On AI Agent for $200 a Month

Perplexity AI has announced a product it is calling the Personal Computer: a subscription service at $200 per month that provides users with a persistent, always-on AI agent capable of browsing the web, executing long-horizon research tasks, managing files, writing and running code, and operating third-party apps on behalf of the user — without the session resets that limit current chatbot interfaces. The product is positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's upcoming agentic offerings, but with a key differentiator: Perplexity's long-standing strength in real-time web search is baked natively into the agent, making it particularly effective for research and information-dense tasks. Early access users in the beta program describe a qualitative jump in what an AI system can accomplish autonomously over multi-hour spans — including completing competitive analyses, preparing briefing documents, and monitoring news on specific topics without requiring continuous user interaction. The $200/month price point is aggressive for a consumer product but positions it below enterprise agent platforms, which typically run $500–2,000/month for comparable autonomous task capability.

James Liu