Hybrid Compute

Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits a task between a frontier, cloud model and a local LLM to handle sensitive info, for all users of its Mac app (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Perplexity AI launched Hybrid Compute, a feature in its Mac app that splits processing between cloud-based frontier models and on-device LLMs to handle sensitive user data locally, aiming to improve privacy and reduce compute costs.