Perplexity launches Teammates to own ongoing work inside Computer

Aravind Srinivas is turning Computer into a home for named agents that inherit projects and memory, act on changes, and escalate at approval points or on defined exceptions.

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Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence

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Teammates shows where personal agents are heading next: standing responsibility for recurring work. For operators, the question shifts from whether an agent can finish a task to whether its memory, permissions and escalation rules are clear enough to trust between check-ins.

A person wearing headphones reclines with a phone beside a monitor and laptop; text reads “perplexity” and “Teammates work for you.”

Perplexity, led by co-founder and chief executive Aravind Srinivas, launched Teammates on November 5th, a persistent agent feature inside Computer designed to own ongoing work without waiting for the next prompt. Perplexity described the agents in a thread on X this way: "Teammates work for you. They take on jobs, and work proactively using your Computer tasks, skills, memory, and tools." Perplexity says Teammates are available now to Max subscribers on the web.…

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