<p>Agentic assistants have a structural problem: the context that makes them useful — deal documents, privileged files, client records — is exactly the context users cannot send to a cloud endpoint. This week, Perplexity shipped its answer for Mac. Hybrid compute splits a single Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a [&#8230;]</p>
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