# Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer > Source: > Published: 2026-09-01 17:05:57+00:00 Perplexity on X: "Introducing hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer. Computer can start a task in the cloud, then move to a local model that runs on your Mac. Use it for steps involving private files or sensitive data. Available today in the Perplexity Mac app." Introducing hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer. Computer can start a task in the cloud, then move to a local model that runs on your Mac. Use it for steps involving private files or sensitive data. Available today in the Perplexity Mac app. Introducing hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer. Computer can start a task in the cloud, then move to a local model that runs on your Mac. Use it for steps involving private files or sensitive data. Available today in the Perplexity Mac app. Hybrid compute uses cloud models for search, planning, and reasoning. It orchestrates to a local model on your Mac to handle private files or sensitive information. Computer combines their work into a single output without ever taking sensitive data up to the server. A privacy gate on your Mac detects PII before it leaves your device. Choose to run that step locally, send the file to the cloud, or skip entirely. We are open-sourcing the classifier today. Read the research: perplexity.ai/hub/blog/pii-t… Huggingface: huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/…