Perplexity open-sources MIT-licensed PII masking model on Hugging Face
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-09-02
Perplexity has released pplx-pii-masking, a personally identifiable information (PII) masking model freely available on Hugging Face under an MIT license. Built on Qwen3 (600M parameters) as a token-classification model, it supports English and multilingual text, targets privacy use cases, detects and masks names, addresses and other sensitive info, and can run entirely on-device.
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