Perplexity has added a fully local mode to Computer, its agent inside the Mac app. From 20 October, the language model and the agent doing the work can both run on the user's machine, with no internet connection needed. It is open to Pro, Max and Enterprise subscribers on Apple silicon.
The company suggests at least 36GB of unified memory and cites the new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini as examples. Two models ship at launch, Qwen 3.6 and PPLX Pro, Perplexity's own further-trained version of Qwen, both downloaded and set up inside the app.
With permission, the agent can use local files plus Notes, Messages, Mail and Numbers, for example scanning recent messages for deadlines and building an action list in Notes. Code and tool actions run in isolated sandboxes with limited access to files and apps.
Cloud use stays optional: users can approve online access for current information, browser tasks or connected apps, where the orchestrator can call more than 15 frontier models. It follows September's Hybrid Compute, which stays available, and the mode is chosen per task.
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