By Patrick McGuinness
Publication Date: 2026-03-01 06:07:00
When the OpenClaw autonomous agent went viral last month, it was a prototype of the future. Now, the future is here, with an explosion of new AI agent releases and features, including some of the same AI agent features that made OpenClaw compelling.
Perplexity introduced Perplexity Computer, an autonomous AI task system capable of executing extended workflows, scheduled tasks, and long-duration projects. The AI system performs sequential tasks within persistent compute environments. By orchestrating AI agent tasks across 19 specialized frontier models in parallel, the system acts as a digital coworker that can break broad project descriptions into isolated sub-tasks for research, coding, and deployment. It is launching for Max users first, and live examples are here.
Cursor launched cloud-based autonomous Agents that run in cloud-hosted isolated VMs and deliver video demos of completed code changes. This capability allows agents to autonomously go onboard into codebases, complete tasks, and visually display results. It expands the scope of agentic AI from local to managed cloud environments:
“Agents can onboard to your codebase, use a cloud computer to make changes, and send you a video demo of their finished work.”
