Perplexity open-sources Lily, a local inference engine for Qwen3.6 on Apple silicon
perplexity_ai · x · 2026-09-03
Perplexity has open-sourced Lily, the local inference engine built for hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer.
- Specialized for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon, so on-device compute doesn't bottleneck Computer tasks
- Designed for a hybrid setup splitting work between cloud models and a local model on the Mac
- Code available on GitHub (pplx-garden/lily)
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