Perplexity Launches Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer for Mac
The feature is available today for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers running macOS 15 or later.
- Tasks use cloud models for search and reasoning, then orchestrate to a local Mac model for private files or sensitive data.
- A local privacy gate detects PII before it leaves the device and lets users run the step locally, send it to the cloud, or skip it.
- Perplexity open-sourced the underlying PII classifier model on Hugging Face as pplx-pii-masking.
Perplexity Mac users can now run sensitive data workflows without transmitting private files or personal identifiable information to cloud servers.
