hybrid compute
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September 1, 2026
product update
Perplexity Launches Hybrid Compute for Mac, Splitting AI Tasks Between Cloud and Local Models
Perplexity's Mac app now supports Hybrid Compute, which starts tasks in the cloud and shifts sensitive steps to a local model running on-device. The feature requires Apple silicon with at least 24GB of unified memory and uses an open-sourced on-device PII classifier to mask private data before any cloud processing.