# Perplexity — Introducing Hybrid Compute on Mac

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-01
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-hybrid-compute-on-mac
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10769-introducing-hybrid-compute-on-mac
- Subject: Perplexity
- Models affected: Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, Perplexity model

Perplexity introduced hybrid compute on Mac, allowing users to run tasks locally on their device while using cloud AI for reasoning and web search. The feature includes a privacy gate that controls what data leaves the machine, and is available to Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers on Apple silicon Macs with at least 24GB of unified memory.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-hybrid-compute-on-mac:

> Hybrid compute lets a user work with AI on data that should never leave their device by dividing each task between the cloud and a local model on their Mac. A privacy gate on the Mac controls what may leave the machine.

## Follow-ups

- TestingCatalog (reported, 31 Aug): Perplexity prepares Hybrid mode for Computer on Mac — https://forck.live/items/8899-perplexity-prepares-hybrid-mode-for-computer-on-mac

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