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Perplexity launches persistent AI agents for work
Perplexity has launched Teammates, AI agents designed to take on ongoing work for people and teams.
They can perform different tasks at the same time and draw on existing projects, files, skills and past sessions in Perplexity.
Unlike the company’s Computer tool, which runs agents in temporary workspaces, Teammates are designed to persist and handle larger, continuing jobs.
Users can track their progress in the Perplexity app and interact with them through Slack.
The launch puts Perplexity in competition with AI work agents from companies including OpenAI and Anthropic.
Access is limited to Max subscribers, whose plan costs $200 a month.
Perplexity says mobile and desktop apps are coming, but gives no date for their release.
Perplexity launched Teammates, persistent AI agents designed to take on ongoing work from high-level goals.
The agents can draw on users’ existing Perplexity projects, memory, skills, files, connectors and past sessions.
Users can assign Teammates different jobs, track their progress in the Perplexity app and interact with them through Slack.
Teammates are initially available to Max subscribers on the web, and the plan costs $200 per month.
Perplexity says native mobile and desktop apps are coming.
- Who
- Perplexity launched Teammates for its users.
- What
- Persistent AI agents that take on ongoing work from high-level goals.
- When
- Thursday, November 5, 2026.
- Where
- On the web for Max subscribers; users can also interact with Teammates through Slack.
- Why
- Perplexity says Teammates can handle ongoing work and build on users’ existing projects, memory and skills.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Perplexity launched Computer, its multi-model agent for Max subscribers.
Perplexity launched Teammates for Max subscribers on the web.
- Product
- Teammates
- Launch date
- November 5, 2026
- Initial availability
- Max subscribers on the web
- Max plan price
- $200 per month
- Future apps
- Native mobile and desktop apps are coming.
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What people are saying
Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person.
They are personal agents for work. And change the paradigm from writing prompts in a session to giving high-level goals.
Teammates build on your Projects, Memory, and Skills that already exist in Perplexity and Computer.
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Today, we're launching Perplexity Teammates. They are personal agents for work. And change the paradigm from writing prompts in a session to giving high-level goals. Rolling out to Max users on the web today. Native apps (mobile, desktop) coming soon.
That takes more than just a frontier model. Agents need to remember you and the org, learn to work with each other and with your coworkers, run on their own, and get better every time you correct them. Teammates is our first step toward that.
Teammates build on your Projects, Memory, and Skills that already exist in Perplexity and Computer. This allows you to bootstrap from what you already have inside. All your existing connectors, files, and past sessions have already onboarded your teammates.