Perplexity takes on OpenAI with Teammates AI agents
perplexity launches teammates ai agents for work, competing with openai and anthropic. this affects businesses using ai for workflow automation.
perplexity ai has launched teammates, a new feature that provides work-focused ai agents. teammates integrate with perplexity computer, an ai system that can deploy agents on a device to complete tasks. each teammate gets its own thread, and users can keep tabs on their progress through the perplexity app or interact with them in slack. perplexity ceo aravind srinivas envisions every organization having hundreds of teammates working for each person. this move positions perplexity to compete with openai and anthropic in the ai agent market.