Perplexity open-sources Lily inference engine for Apple Silicon
Lily is a Rust + Metal inference engine specialized for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon, powering Perplexity's new hybrid compute feature in the Mac app. Hybrid compute lets Computer orchestrate cloud and local models, routing sensitive data to the local machine.
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