PERPLEXITY 🔥: A new Hybrid mode is coming soon on Mac, letting local models handle some subtasks.

Gemma 4 (for 16 GB machines), Qwen3.6, and Perplexity's own model (For 32 GB machines) are currently supported.

"In Hybrid mode, Computer orchestrates in the cloud and delegates suitable subtasks to a model on your Mac."

"Local models run on your Mac's own memory and processor — the more capable your machine, the larger the models it can run."

"Privacy Gate is a small model that runs entirely on your Mac. It inspects anything headed to the cloud for personal or sensitive information — and if it finds any, you decide how to handle it before anything is sent."

That would be huge 👀