According to Perplexity, its upcoming hybrid AI system can automatically route tasks between on-device and cloud models, aiming to improve privacy, efficiency, and performance

A new hybrid inference system from Perplexity routes AI tasks between your device and the cloud automatically.

After Windows Phone, Microsoft is eager to get ahead of the next paradigm shift in computing, and it's betting big on an agentic hardware and software future.

Predictive analytics using IoT sensors and data analytics to monitor equipment condition in real time and predict potential failures before they occur is a popular industrial AI application. Another emerging example is leveraging AI in computer vision for employee safety.

Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local

Software-focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners is launching an inference-focused compute platform named Vector Core Compute. The company, which partnered with early-stage venture capital firm Cambium Capital on the project, described the new venture as an agentic neocloud during its announcement at Intel's Computex keynote.

The World Economic Forum’s " Future of Jobs Report 2025 " projects that AI and information processing will transform employers by 2030. It identifies AI and big data as the fastest-growing skills, and lists AI specialists, big data specialists, fintech engineers and software developers among fast-growing technology roles.

Agentic AI could lift productivity, but companies may need a new class of computers before the technology can work at scale.