Splitting AI tasks: Cloud for research, Mac for privacy
Hybrid Compute is now live on Perplexity Computer, their Mac app. It splits a task between the cloud and your own Mac: research and reasoning happen in the cloud with their strongest AI, while anything touching your private files stays on your Mac with a local AI, so it never gets uploaded. Works on Apple silicon, 24GB RAM minimum, live now for Pro/Max/Enterprise.
Perplexity Hybrid Compute launched on Product Hunt on 2026-09-13 and has 225 upvotes and 3 comments so far.
Pricing details for this tool haven’t been verified yet — check the tool’s website for current plans.