Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
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Most "runs locally on your Mac" stacks are a general-purpose runtime pointed at whatever model you downloaded. Perplexity just argued that the generality itself is the bottleneck. They open sourced Lily — the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. A Rust runtime with h…
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- 2026-09-03 07:08 · r/machinelearningnews
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon