Perplexity Launches ‘Teammates’ Personal Agents for Long-Running Work

Perplexity announced the launch of “teammates, personal agents that can take on that long-running work.”

According to Perplexity, teammates are designed to free people from the mundane job of coordinating individual tasks, allowing them to focus on outcomes and the big picture. To achieve this, teammates are designed to plan and coordinate projects, adapt to changing circumstances, and keep the user in the loop with regular updates.

Teammates represent a new way of working with AI. Users can delegate ongoing actions to teammates so people can focus on outcomes rather than coordinating every task. Built on Perplexity’s focus on accuracy and Computer’s multi-model capabilities, teammates plan the work, check results along the way, and bring completed work back for review.

Teammates can investigate issues, research a market, or test improvements to a product, among other tasks. They remember project goals, task history, and shared files across runs. Each new task a teammate takes on builds on the work already done.

The company touts teammates’ ability to adapt to changing circumstances:

Teammates monitor ongoing work and follow up as things change. They investigate and act without waiting for a fresh query.

For example, a sales teammate notices when a regular customer stops transacting. The teammate reviews their order history and support issues and investigates what changed.

Then, it creates an offer relevant to that customer or flags any issues to resolve before reaching out. It shares progress updates and approval requests until it completes the work.

Teammates also remember past work and apply feedback to future tasks. If a user tells an operations teammate an agency needs two weeks’ notice, it factors that lead time into future project schedules.

Perplexity emphasizes teammates’ security, saying “each teammate runs in a separate environment, with browser sessions separate from other teammates.” What’s more, credentials are encrypted and users always have the option to jump in at any point, take over a task, or give a teammate new directions.

If teammates work as well as Perplexity claims, it could represent a major step forward in the overall utility of agentic AI.

The new feature is available via the web and will soon be available on iOS for Perplexity Max subscribers.