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title: "Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/perplexity-open-sources-lily-a-rust-metal-inference-engine-for-qwen3-6-ceb0e82c
published: 2026-09-03T06:57:07.000Z
byline: "Source: VERIFIED-REPORTING"
---

# Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon

Source: VERIFIED-REPORTING · Published 2026-09-03 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/perplexity-open-sources-lily-a-rust-metal-inference-engine-for-qwen3-6-ceb0e82c

Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer.

In this story: [Perplexity](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/perplexity), [Perplexity Computer](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/perplexity-computer)

## Sources

- [Read the original at VERIFIED-REPORTING](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/02/perplexity-open-sources-lily-a-rust-metal-inference-engine-for-qwen3-6-35b-a3b-on-apple-silicon/)

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