Perplexity Launches ‘Teammates’, Always-On AI Agents For Work, Taking On OpenAI’s Dots And Anthropic’s Claude Duet

Perplexity has launched Teammates, a set of always-on AI agents meant to own ongoing work, putting it in the same race as OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet.

What Perplexity Teammates does

Each Teammate can be given a role, a standing brief and rules for when to bring the user in, according to Perplexity’s product page. They carry over projects, skills and memory from Perplexity Computer, the company’s system that deploys agents on a user’s device. They also run on automations to keep work moving.

Every Teammate gets one persistent thread in the app’s sidebar, and Teammates can work with each other. They can also follow up with colleagues in Slack, Perplexity said. Each one has its own desktop and browser, using the same plugins and permissions the user has installed.

Perplexity gives sample jobs including running ad campaigns, acting as an on-call engineer who investigates alerts and opens fix requests, and doing legal research. CEO Aravind Srinivas said on X that Perplexity expects organisations to eventually have hundreds of Teammates working for each person.

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