Trellner Research tested Perplexity's Sonar models across 380 software categories and found three newly-registered domains had published 215,128 machine-generated "best software" pages — HTML-titled "Facts & Grounding Page" — that Perplexity cites extensively. 59.8% of its citations lead to domains outside the global top-100,000.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark puts a Blackwell GPU and full CUDA stack inside a laptop SoC — enough to run a 120B-parameter model locally with 1M-token context. At roughly the same moment, Perplexity shipped a hybrid inference orchestrator that uses a compact on-device model to automatically decide which tasks stay local and which escalate to the cloud. Together they sketch what a local-AI platform actually looks like in hardware and software.