Perplexity AI has unveiled a new suite of workplace-focused agents called Teammates. The always-on assistants are designed to handle a broad range of tasks without interruption, echoing the functionality of OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet. By remaining active 24 hours a day, the agents aim to provide continuous support for business processes.
The new agents operate on top of Perplexity Computer, the company’s on-device AI platform that can launch agents directly on a user’s hardware. According to Perplexity, Teammates draw on existing projects, skill libraries, and memory stored within the broader Perplexity toolset, allowing them to act with contextual awareness across multiple applications.
Within a workspace, each Teammate can be assigned a distinct role and set of responsibilities, enabling simultaneous execution of several jobs. Perplexity describes the feature as an expansion of Computer’s capabilities, providing collaborative workflows and the capacity to manage ongoing, large-scale assignments that would otherwise require coordination among multiple human contributors.
Access to Teammates is gated behind Perplexity’s Max subscription, priced at $200 per month. The company acknowledges that this fee places the service at a higher price point than comparable offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, positioning the product as a premium solution for organizations willing to invest in continuous AI assistance.
Users can track each agent’s activity through dedicated threads in the Perplexity application, and the system also supports direct interaction via Slack channels. CEO Aravind Srinivas shared on X that the long-term goal is for every organization to host “hundreds of teammates working for each person,” indicating an ambition to scale the technology across entire enterprises.
Perplexity Computer, the underlying engine for Teammates, can operate fully offline on macOS devices, though it demands substantial RAM to function effectively. This hardware requirement underscores the trade-off between on-device processing and cloud-based alternatives, suggesting that enterprises adopting Teammates may need to provision higher-spec workstations to achieve optimal performance.