New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Artificial intelligence firm Perplexity is introducing hybrid compute for all users of its Mac application, enabling tasks to be divided between cloud infrastructure and local devices to protect sensitive records.

The announcement comes directly from Perplexity co-founder and chief executive officer Aravind Srinivas, who outlined the company's push toward on-device processing on Tuesday.

"We're introducing hybrid compute for all users of the Perplexity Mac app," Srinivas said on X.

"This will allow Computer to orchestrate local models that can run locally on Mac, particularly for agent steps involving sensitive and private files (eg your bloodwork, tax returns, litigation, etc)," he added.

Srinivas noted the dist...