By Elena Varga
Publication Date: 2026-11-14 13:18:00
Perplexity expanded its Teammates agentic AI feature to Mac this week, adding desktop support alongside iOS and web. The feature runs ongoing tasks through multiple AI agents and requires a Perplexity Max subscription.
Perplexity released its Teammates agentic AI feature for Mac this week, expanding a tool that ran on iOS and the web. Teammates are proactive AI threads that handle tasks without constant prompting.
Perplexity describes Teammates as a team of AI agents that own ongoing work. Give a teammate a responsibility, such as managing a growth campaign, triaging incoming bug reports, tracking metrics, or researching a new market, and it owns that work around the clock. It plans tasks, brings in more agents when the work grows, and follows through until the result is ready for review.
Access requires a paid Perplexity Max subscription. The feature builds on Perplexity’s existing AI orchestration system.
Teammates join a crowded field of proactive AI assistants. Grok Bot offers a similar approach. Meta Muse and ChatGPT Dots pursue the same goal but rely on a single chat model instead of supporting multiple instances.
The Mac release follows other Perplexity desktop moves. The company’s Computer feature can run on a Mac, even offline. Perplexity also launched a privacy-minded hybrid compute AI feature for Mac and added a ChatGPT-powered voice mode to its Mac app.
For Mac users, Teammates turn the desktop into a place where long-running work can proceed in the background….
