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Perplexity Launches Always-On AI Agent Teammates for Work
Perplexity launches always-on AI agent Teammates for work, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own offering.
Key points
- Teammates can take on multiple roles within a workspace and integrate with Perplexity Computer.
- Each Teammate gets its own thread, which can be tracked in the Perplexity app and accessed in Slack.
- Using Teammates requires a subscription to Perplexity's $200 a month Max plan.
Why it matters. Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with work-focused AI agents, but its version is much more expensive than rival offerings, according to the article.
Perplexity has rolled out Teammates, always-on agents that take on multiple roles in a workspace and pull in projects, skills and memory from the Perplexity tools users already use. Teammates can perform different jobs simultaneously, and users can track their progress in the Perplexity app or interact with them in Slack. The feature requires the $200-a-month Max plan, which makes Perplexity's version much more expensive than OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet.
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Perplexity Launches Always-On AI Agent Teammates for Work
Perplexity has launched a set of work-focused AI agents, which it describes as always-on teammates. The agents are designed to take on multiple tasks for users. The launch positions the startup against rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, which are also building agent products for enterprise and professional use. Engadget reported the same launch, describing the agents as personal AI teammates. The products mark a push by Perplexity beyond its search product into autonomous work tools.