←Back to NewsAI News/InfranewsInfraOpen SourcePerplexity Ships PII-Tracer, a 0.6B Guard Keeping Private Data off the CloudPerplexity's Computer now splits agent tasks between cloud frontier models and an on-device model, gated by an open-source 0.6B PII detector.SourcePerplexityPublishedSep 1, 2026, 3:04 PMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readPerplexity's Computer now splits agent tasks between cloud frontier models and an on-device model, gated by an open-source 0.6B PII detector.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsPerplexity · newsPerplexity's CobbleDB Cuts Search Storage Latency by 82% Over DynamoDBAlphaSignal · repoEdge0 Runs a 35B AI Model on a Mac mini Using SSDCohere · newsCohere's Open-Source Megakernel Beats vLLM by 1.58x on H100