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Perplexity’s “Hybrid Compute” splits work between local and cloud-based AI.

The feature, which is rolling out to Perplexity Computer on Mac, uses a “privacy gate” to control which information leaves the device. While cloud-based AI models will handle reasoning, web search, and planning, an on-device model will work with tasks involving sensitive information and private files. [Link: Introducing Hybrid Compute on Mac | https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-hybrid-compute-on-mac | Perplexity]

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The feature, which is rolling out to Perplexity Computer on Mac, uses a “privacy gate” to control which information leaves the device. While cloud-based AI models will handle reasoning, web search, and planning, an on-device model will work with tasks involving sensitive information and private files.

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