Perplexity launches Teammates, AI agents built for ongoing work tasks

Perplexity has launched Teammates, a set of always-on AI agents designed to work inside a company’s existing workspace. The feature lets a user assign different roles to multiple agents, which then run continuously and pull memory, skills, and project history from the Perplexity tools the user already relies on.

The launch puts Perplexity in direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which have released similar work-focused agent products. OpenAI’s version is called Dots, and Anthropic’s is called Claude Duet. Like those products, Perplexity’s Teammates can take on an array of tasks at once and keep working without a person actively supervising each step.

Teammates build on an earlier Perplexity product called Computer, an AI system that can deploy agents directly on a user’s device to complete tasks. According to Perplexity, Teammates go further than Computer by letting agents collaborate with each other and carry out what the company calls “ongoing, large-scale work,” rather than one-off jobs.

Each Teammate gets its own thread inside the Perplexity app, so a user can check on an agent’s progress at any time. Teammates can also be reached through Slack, letting people interact with their assigned agents from a messaging tool they already use for work.

The new feature is not available to most Perplexity users. It requires a subscription to the company’s Max plan, which costs $200 a month, making it considerably more expensive than comparable offerings from some competitors.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas framed Teammates as an early step toward a much larger shift in how companies organize work. “Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person,” he wrote on X.

A crowded and scrutinized market

Perplexity’s push into workplace agents comes as the company faces broader questions about how its AI products operate. A separate copyright lawsuit filed by Reddit against Perplexity has been allowed to proceed, according to reporting from The Verge, adding to the scrutiny the company already faces over how it gathers and uses data.

Perplexity has not said how many organizations have signed up to use Teammates, nor has it detailed what specific roles the agents can perform beyond the general description of handling multiple tasks at once. It is also unclear whether Teammates’ pricing will change if the feature expands beyond the Max plan to more of Perplexity’s subscriber base.

For now, the company is betting that bundling agent collaboration with the tools, memory, and context users already have in Perplexity will be enough to draw enterprise customers away from OpenAI and Anthropic, even at a higher price than rival products.