Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac

A Mac with at least 36GB of RAM can now run Perplexity AI workflows locally. Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac. News AI Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac You’ll need a Mac with at least 36GB of RAM, however.

In hindsight, it was probably only a matter of time before the company made it possible for people to run the platform entirely on their own device, because that’s exactly what it’s doing now. Provided you own a recent Apple Silicon Mac with at least 36GB of RAM, now you can run the entire Computer experience, including the all-important harness and orchestrator, on your own machine. Like Hybrid Compute, Perplexity is pitching this feature as a boon to thrifty users and those who want to keep their data private.

For example, with access to your Notes and Mail apps, you could ask Computer to generate a priority to-do list for you, without any of the data in your emails being sent to the cloud. "As more demanding workflows become practical to run locally, the machines people already own will take on a larger share of their AI work," the company explains. "This gives users more control over sensitive data and credit spend." With today’s release, you can choose one of two models to run Computer locally: Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro.

Perplexity is adding a new local-first mode to its Mac app that lets Computer work entirely on the device. This includes running tasks without an internet connection.

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The latter is a Perplexity offshoot of Qwen 3.6, which the company did its own post-training for to fine tune it for Computer use.