Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the native inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime: a Rust layer masses the checkpoint and drives the era loop, an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API streams tokens, and hand-written Metal kernels execute the mannequin. Neither PyTorch nor MLX sits within the execution path. Lily is…
