Perplexity open-sources its Mac inference server optimized for Qwen 3.6 on Apple Silicon
Specter_Origin · reddit · 2026-09-03
Perplexity has open-sourced its Mac local inference server (the lily project inside its pplx-garden repo) on GitHub.
- The server is heavily optimized for a single model, Qwen 3.6, to squeeze the best performance out of Apple Silicon
- A ready-to-use option for developers running local models on Macs
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