Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work
Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use. Teammates integrate with Perplexity Computer, an AI system that can deploy agents on your device […]
Perplexity, the startup, has unveiled its own AI agents designed for professional use, in direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic. These new "Teammates" can multitask within a workspace and utilize existing projects, skills, and knowledge from the Perplexity tools that users are already familiar with. Teammates are engineered to integrate with Perplexity Computer, an AI system capable of deploying agents onto a user's device for task execution.
However, unlike the free accessibility of similar features provided by OpenAI’s Dots and Claude Duet, Perplexity's approach comes with a price tag - a $200 per month Max subscription plan. This premium service allows users to delegate various jobs to different Teammates, which can work simultaneously on large-scale projects. Progress tracking is facilitated through individual threads within the Perplexity app and direct interaction with Teammates in Slack.
CEO Aravind Srinivas envisions a future where every organization could have hundreds of these digital assistants, one for each individual employee.
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