Perplexity Introduces PII-TRACE Benchmark and PII-Tracer On-Device Detector
Perplexity on September 1, 2026, introduced PII-TRACE, a benchmark for evaluating detectors of personally identifiable information, and PII-Tracer, a compact 0.6B-parameter model built to flag PII on a user's device before text is sent to cloud models. The announcement frames both releases as privacy infrastructure for the company's hybrid compute architecture, in which cloud agents handle research, reasoning, and planning while a local model works with private files. Under that architecture, a… [...]
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Perplexity AI unveils hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026
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Perplexity takes its ‘Computer’ AI agent into the enterprise, taking aim at Microsoft and Salesforce
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Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs
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Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud
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Amazon and Perplexity are fighting over the future of AI shopping
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Perplexity sued by Japanese media giants for stealing information and presenting false information
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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again
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Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content
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