Perplexity CEO: local tokens on Apple Silicon are free and private — a big agent opportunity
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-09-01
Arav Srinivas explained the rationale: most AI agent apps don't distinguish native vs web runtimes when using cloud agents. Mac offers a big opportunity to shift token consumption to Apple Silicon — tokens consumed locally cost nothing — while protecting privacy. Hybrid compute combines frontier cloud models with a privacy-protecting local runtime.
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