Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work — SkimNews
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- Perplexity launched Teammates, always-on AI agents that can run 24/7 and take on multiple roles within a workspace, joining rivals OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet.
- Teammates draw on existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools users already have, letting each agent operate from work already in progress.
- Perplexity Computer is the foundation: Teammates build "on top" of Computer, which deploys agents on a user's device, adding collaboration and "ongoing, large-scale work."
- Teammates can be assigned different jobs and run them simultaneously, with users tracking each agent's progress through individual threads in the Perplexity app.
- Slack serves as an additional way to interact with the agents, alongside the in-app threads, while the Max plan subscription is required to use Teammates.
- Aravind Srinivas said on X that Perplexity envisions "every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person," framing the product around organization-wide agent fleets.
- Max plan pricing is the catch: access requires a $200-per-month subscription, which Perplexity notes is "much more expensive" than OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet.
Why it matters: Perplexity's always-on agents are reserved for its $200-per-month Max plan, a price the company itself calls much more expensive than OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet. That leaves Perplexity leaning on workload scale — each Teammate holding its own projects, skills, and memory, running in parallel — instead of competing on price.
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