Perplexity Launches AI Agents Called Teammates to Handle Ongoing Work Tasks for $200 Per Month

Perplexity Enters AI Agents Race with Teammates Launch

Perplexity is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic with the launch of Teammates, its new always-on AI agents for work designed to handle complex, ongoing tasks with minimal supervision1

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. The startup positions these AI agents as persistent digital coworkers that can take on multiple roles within a workspace while pulling from existing projects, skills, and memory already stored in Perplexity tools1

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How Teammates Build on Perplexity Computer

Teammates integrate with Perplexity Computer, the company's cloud-based agentic assistant that can perform multi-step tasks3

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. Unlike Computer's temporary sandbox sessions that vanished after each job, Teammates stick around as permanent fixtures in your workflow4

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Multi-Agent Orchestration and Workplace Productivity Features

Users can assign each Teammate different jobs that they can perform simultaneously, enabling true multi-agent orchestration1

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. These AI coworkers work together and can even manage other Teammates to ensure tasks get completed3

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Teammates work 24/7 in the background, remaining proactive by design and running on automations to keep moving work forward even when you're away from your computer2

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Real-World Applications and Slack Integration

Perplexity provides examples spanning marketing, sales, support, and operations roles4

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. Use cases include Ads Manager, Engineer, QA Engineer, and Legal Research Assistant2

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. For legal work, a Teammate could read a contract, compare terms with other documents, flag problems, and draft responses2

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. In marketing, an ads teammate can spot creator ads beating customer acquisition cost targets, prepare bigger campaigns, and send contract extensions to legal teams4

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Slack integration allows real-life coworkers to hand work to Teammates through dedicated channels, while the AI agents watch channels and act when programmed conditions change1

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Monitoring Progress and Natural Language Interaction

Each Teammate appears in dedicated threads within Perplexity once created, with individual entries on the sidebar where users can see what they're doing and what they've finished2

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Perplexity Max Subscribers Get Exclusive Access at $200 Monthly

Teammates are exclusively available to Perplexity Max subscribers, requiring a subscription to the $200-per-month or $2,000-per-year Max plan1

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. This makes Perplexity's take on AI agents for work considerably more expensive than competing offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic1

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At launch, Teammates are free to use for Max subscribers during a promotional period with no credits required2

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Platform Availability and Future Vision

Teammates launched on Perplexity for web, with availability on iOS and plans to launch on Android later2

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. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity CEO, envisions a future where "every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person"1

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The launch positions Perplexity alongside OpenAI's workspace agents, Microsoft's Copilot Cowork, and Anthropic's Claude Cowork in the race to deliver autonomous workplace AI agents, though competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft target organizations rather than individual subscribers4

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