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Technology · Artificial intelligence · published 2026-09-01 · via Engadget

Perplexity's Hybrid Compute keeps sensitive AI tasks on your PC

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Perplexity introduces Hybrid Compute for its Mac app, allowing tasks to be split between cloud-based frontier models and local LLMs. This keeps sensitive data on the device and can reduce inference costs. Users can review which files are gated to local processing before execution.

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