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Decider for Mac runs Perplexity’s decision model locally without an API key
- Who
- Perplexity
- What
- releases Decider for Mac, an app for running the pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 decision model locally
What happened
Aravind Srinivas says the Perplexity Decision Model can now run fully locally on a Mac, without any data leaving the machine. In the quoted announcement, @perplexitydevs describes Decider for Mac as an app running the 4B pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 model without an API key, returning a probability for questions about text or an image.
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Running the decision model locally without an API key offers a concrete deployment option for text and image questions while keeping data on the user's Mac.
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See the full storyPerplexity Releases Decider v1.2 Models, Adds OpenRouter Access and Local Mac AppThe story so far
Perplexity open-sourced two Decider v1.2 models that are now available on OpenRouter, and released Decider for Mac to run the smaller, 4B-parameter pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally without an API key. Perplexity’s developer account says the Mac app returns a probability for questions about text or an image; Aravind Srinivas said it runs entirely on the Mac without data leaving the machine. OpenRouter says both open-weights models accept text or images and return typed answers with probabilities. The larger, 27B-parameter pplx-decider-v1.2 succeeds v1.1. Srinivas listed prices of 1 cent per million tokens for Flash and 2 cents per million tokens for the larger model, and said they ranked first among 4B models and second overall, respectively, on the HF Decision Index.
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