🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog(@testingcatalog):PERPLEXITY 🔥: A fully local option is now available on the Perplexity Computer macOS Desktop app for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers! They did it 👀 Perplexity Computer no longer needs the internet or paid credits to work. A fully local mode is powered by PPLX Pro, a post-trained version of the Qwen 3.8 model. For complex tasks, it can also run in Hybrid mode to use cloud models. Perplexity Computer has a very good harness, and this needs a lot of testing time! * 36 GB of unified memory is recommended.

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2026.10.20 18:59

PERPLEXITY 🔥: A fully local option is now available on the Perplexity Computer macOS Desktop app for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers! They did it 👀 Perplexity Computer no longer needs the internet or paid credits to work. A fully local mode is powered by PPLX Pro, a post-trained version of the Qwen 3.8 model. For complex tasks, it can also run in Hybrid mode to use cloud models. Perplexity Computer has a very good harness, and this needs a lot of testing time! * 36 GB of unified memory is recommended.