Perplexity has shipped hybrid compute for its Mac app, splitting a single Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a compact model running on the user's machine. Tasks start in the cloud for sea…
Compute supply, energy and data-center capacity decide how cheaply AI can run. Infrastructure shifts show up in inference costs weeks later.
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