PERPLEXITY :  A Hybrid mode for Perplexity Computer on Mac has been officially announced!

> The Hybrid mode is powered by PPLX Qwen 3.8 27B, a custom post-trained model from Perplexity. 

> It also comes with a Privacy Gate feature to detect PII data before it is sent to the cloud. 

> Perplexity also open-sourced the Privacy Gate classifier on Hugging Face.