Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work

Judgment

Teams considering always-on work agents must decide whether Perplexity’s Teammates justify the $200/month Max plan, since the agents run 24/7 while people still assign jobs and monitor each thread.

Basis

The Verge’s Emma Roth reports that Perplexity launched “Teammates,” always-on work-focused AI agents that can take multiple roles in a workspace and pull existing projects, skills, and memory from Perplexity tools. Perplexity says Teammates build on Perplexity Computer by enabling collaboration and “ongoing, large-scale work”; users can assign different jobs that run simultaneously, and each Teammate gets its own thread, with progress visible in the app and interaction in Slack. Roth notes the feature resembles OpenAI’s Dots and Claude Duet but is “much more expensive,” because it requires Perplexity’s $200 / month Max plan. CEO Aravind Srinivas says on X: “Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person.” The mechanism is always-on delegated work plus per-thread oversight, gated by a high-priced subscription.