Perplexity Teammates: 24/7 AI Agents for Work [2026]

Perplexity has put a new kind of worker in front of its subscribers. Engadget reports that “Teammates” are the company’s AI agents for daily work tasks, built to own ongoing responsibilities instead of answering one prompt at a time. Third-party coverage dates the rollout to November 5 and 6, 2026.

The pitch is simple. You hand a Teammate a standing job, such as triaging bug reports or tracking a metric, and it keeps working while you do something else. That puts Perplexity in a crowded race we have tracked before, and our ranking of the best AI agents shows…