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Perplexity open-sources Lily AI engine for Apple Silicon

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Perplexity is open-sourcing its Lily AI engine, designed for local artificial intelligence processing on Apple Silicon. The engine is built using Rust and supports the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model, aiming to provide faster AI capabilities directly on user devices. AI

IMPACT This release could enable more efficient on-device AI processing for applications leveraging Apple Silicon.

RANK_REASON This is a product release for an AI engine, but not from a frontier lab.

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Perplexity open-sources Lily AI engine for Apple Silicon

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