Perplexity launches privacy-minded 'hybrid compute' AI feature for Mac
The feature starts tasks in the cloud and shifts sensitive steps to a local model, with an on-device classifier masking personal data.
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Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud
Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device.The company says it is the first time an AI agent can begin a task in the cloud and dynamically hand off the confidential portions…
Perplexity presented Hybrid Compute, a function that divides the tasks of its AI agents between advanced cloud models and local models operating on the Mac. The tool seeks to protect sensitive information, reduce inference costs and give the user greater control over the balance between power, privacy and price.
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