Perplexity has launched Teammates, a kind of personal agent that is given a high-level goal and keeps working on it over time, rather than answering one prompt and stopping. They live inside Perplexity Computer, the cloud agent the company released in February 2026, and are rolling out first to subscribers of the $200-a-month Max plan on the web. Free and Pro users must upgrade. Engadget says iOS is available at launch; Perplexity and Digital Trends say it is still to come, with native apps in the coming weeks.
“Today, we’re launching teammates, personal agents that can take on that long-running work. They plan and coordinate projects, switch gears as priorities change, and present results for review.”
Perplexity, in its announcement blog post · perplexity.ai ↗
Each teammate has a role and its own entry in Computer's sidebar, where the work finished and under way is listed. They run around the clock in the background and ping the user only when a decision is needed. A teammate can also oversee others, bringing in new ones and planning their tasks as the workload grows. Unlike earlier Computer sessions, which ran in temporary sandboxes, teammates persist and build on a user's projects, memory, skills and files.
Perplexity's header graphic for the Teammates announcement
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Each one runs in a separate environment with its own browser sessions and encrypted saved credentials, and users can review the work, take over the desktop or redirect it. Added to a Slack channel, a teammate can take requests from colleagues. Perplexity's examples include triaging bugs, security monitoring, data analysis and sales follow-up, such as spotting a regular customer who stopped ordering and drafting an offer.
About Perplexity
Perplexity has been building toward agents for some time. It released its Comet browser, built on Chromium, in July 2025, first only for its top subscription tier and then as a free download from October 2025. In April 2026 it introduced Personal Computer, an extension of Computer that runs on a user's own device.
Its footing has also grown on the infrastructure side: in January 2026 it signed a three-year, $750 million deal with Microsoft for Azure and Foundry, giving it access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. It was valued at about $21.2 billion after its Series E-6 round.
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Chief executive Aravind Srinivas describes them as persistent coworkers that take over responsibilities and see tasks through. Digital Trends places the launch among rivals chasing the same idea: OpenAI's workspace agents, Microsoft's Copilot Cowork, Grok Bot and Anthropic's Claude Cowork, the first two aimed at organisations.
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