Perplexity already has its Dots: this is how Teammates work, the agents who take care of your tasks at all hours
At midnight, an error appears in the billing API. Before anyone gets out of bed, an agent reviews the logs, locates the cause in a configuration parameter, and opens a fix with its rollback plan, waiting for a human to approve it. This is one of the examples with which Perplexity presents Teammates, its new AI agents.
The idea is the same as that proposed by other relevant players in the sector, such as OpenAI or Anthropic. Each of these agents must take on an ongoing responsibility, such as managing a campaign, triaging bug reports, or tracking metrics, and be in charge of it 24 hours a day. For now it is only available on the web for subscribers of Perplexity Max and the company has announced that it will later arrive on iOS, Android and desktop.
It must be remembered that Perplexity started as an AI-based search engine, but its catalog of services has grown quite a bit since then. Today it has Comet, its browser with integrated AI and agent mode. He also closed agreements such as the one that takes his search to Samsung televisions. And now it is clear that the company does not want to miss the more professional and corporate sector.
Each agent has their own desktop and browser
Teammates is built on top of Perplexity Computer and takes advantage of all of its current capabilities. Add to that coordination between multiple agents, complete control of a desktop and a browser, and proactive monitoring. In practice, each agent receives a task, a role, permanent instructions and rules that dictate when they should notify you.
They all appear in the sidebar, next to the projects. Each one maintains a single thread that never closes. There you can check what he is doing, what he has finished and when, or change his plans with natural language, just as you would do with a partner.
In addition, they work from the user’s memory and the context of previous tasks, collaborate with other agents, and can follow up with your colleagues through Slack. On the other hand, each agent has its own desktop and browser, with independent sessions and cookies. This prevents contexts from mixing and each one from focusing on their own responsibilities.
Nothing new under the sun
The proposal comes just over a month after OpenAI presented Dots, its autonomous agents that work in the background, are based on GPT-6 Astra and have access to more than 4,000 applications. Both systems are quite similar. For example, both have execution in their own environment, continuous work without constant supervision, and they even integrate with Slack. By the way, in the Perplexity demo, the model selector also shows GPT-6 Astra.
Regarding price, during a promotional period, all Max plans include Teammates free use. Once these promotion credits are exhausted, agents consume the monthly credits already included in the subscription.
