The company says users can authorize access to local files and supported Mac apps including Notes, Messages, Mail, and Numbers, and that sensitive work can remain on the Mac through planning, analysis, and output. The local mode uses Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro, which Perplexity describes as a post-trained version of Qwen. Users may choose to escalate to cloud services for current information, browser use, connected apps, or advanced reasoning through one of 15+ frontier models. Perplexity also says code and tool execution run in isolated sandboxes with controlled access. These are company-described capabilities; the supplied source does not independently verify data-flow behavior or performance.
Perplexity Computer now runs fully local on Apple silicon Macs , with model and agent on-device.
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Perplexity says Computer can now run fully locally on Macs with Apple silicon, with the model, agent harness, and task execution on device.
What changed: Perplexity Computer’s local-model offering now runs fully on Apple silicon Macs, extending the earlier local-computer rollout from NVIDIA/Linux and Windows RTX hardware.