Perplexity Releases Hybrid Compute on Mac: Cloud Agents Orchestrate Down to a Local Model, Gated On Device
Agentic assistants have a structural drawback: the context that makes them helpful — deal paperwork, privileged information, consumer data — is strictly the context customers can not ship to a cloud endpoint. This week, Perplexity shipped its reply for Mac. Hybrid compute splits a single Perplexity Computer activity between frontier fashions within the cloud and…
