Perplexity Launches Always-On AI Teammates to Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in Workspace Automation
AI startup Perplexity has officially entered the workplace agent race by introducing "Teammates," a suite of always-on artificial intelligence agents engineered to handle diverse organizational tasks. Designed to compete directly with enterprise solutions from OpenAI and Anthropic, Teammates can fulfill multiple workspace roles by drawing on users' existing projects, learned skills, and persistent memory across the Perplexity platform. Crucially, the system works in tandem with Perplexity Computer, an underlying AI system capable of deploying agents directly on a user's device. This release marks an ambitious transition for Perplexity, expanding its core capabilities from an answer-based search engine into an active, autonomous workforce ecosystem built to execute complex, context-rich productivity workflows across modern enterprise environments.
