Perplexity 'ın Hibrit Hesaplaması, hassas görevleri bulut ve yerel yapay zeka arasında böler

Back in February, debuted Perplexity Computer . Like Claude Cowork , it's a suite of AI agents that can autonomously complete tasks using the web, as well as files and apps on your PC. Since then, the platform has evolved to encompass a few different products, including Personal Computer for the Mac , and today Perplexity is announcing yet offshoot called Hybrid Compute.

The new tools allows you to split a task between a frontier, cloud-based model like Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol and a local LLM running on your computer — the idea being that the local model can handle any sensitive information so that it remains safe and secure on your machine. Perplexity suggests a few different use cases where Hybrid Compute would be a good fit. For instance, a lawyer might want to prepare a brief that compares the case they're working on against existing case law. In that scenario, the tool would allow them to keep their client's data confidential. Perplexity is also pitching Hybrid Compute as a way for thrifty users to save on inference costs by offloading some of the work from the (typically pricier) frontier models.

"This is integrated directly into the Mac app. Any time you try to upload files or send information, we're going to automatically check for sensitive content and make sure that you want to share that data to the cloud," said Perplexity's Jon Staff, who oversees all of the company's Mac products.

As part of this release, the company trained a new privacy classifier that will automatically suggest files and information the user should keep on their computer.

Before Hybrid Compute starts delegating your task between different models, you'll be able to look over what files it wants to gate away to double check it didn't miss something important. At this stage, you can also decide what models you want to tackle the work. On the local side, your options are Gemma E4B and two flavors of Qwen's 35-billion parameter 3.6 model. One of those variants was post-trained by Perplexity. The company says it will offer more local models in the future. Whatever option you choose, installing a local model does not require you to open your Mac's terminal, and Perplexity's app handles the installation process.

Once the system is underway, you'll see a visualization displaying your local CPU, GPU and memory usage.