Perplexity open-sources models, an inference engine, and security tools

Perplexity has released several open source projects, including the pplx-decider-v1-27b multimodal decision model, the pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview contextual embeddings model, and the Lily local inference engine for Apple silicon.

The post also lists the 0.6B on-device PII-Tracer classifier with its PII-TRACE benchmark, the WANDR research agent benchmark, and the Numbat and Bumblebee security tools, and says more open source releases are coming soon.