# 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.

## Why it matters

Perplexity Mac users can now run sensitive data workflows without transmitting private files or personal identifiable information to cloud servers.

## Sources

- [Perplexity: Perplexity Launches Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer for Mac](https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2094803515264978953)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-01. https://dstilled.ai/story/e683efd8-518f-42b6-b3af-89b844e6ed4f