Perplexity launches Teammates, AI agents only for Max subscribers

Perplexity unveiled Teammates on Wednesday, AI agents that take a standing assignment instead of a one-off question. For people in Mexico, the practical change is small for now: only subscribers to the Max plan can use them, on the web, and the announcement gives no separate price, usage limits or country-by-country availability.

Each agent starts from the projects, memory and skills a user already has in Perplexity, the company says. It plans its own tasks, works in the background and follows up without waiting for a new prompt. It runs in a separate environment with its own browser sessions, and a person can review progress, take over the desktop or redirect it.

Teammates connect to Slack, GitHub and Gmail. In GitHub, the user picks which repositories the agent can reach. In Slack, the agent joins a channel, and colleagues hand it work or ask for updates. Perplexity adds that one agent can pass tasks to another: one hunts for bugs on a website while a second prepares the fixes.

The examples the company gives are office jobs. A sales agent spots that a regular customer stopped buying and drafts an offer; an operations agent tracks deadlines and chases missing items when 72 hours remain.

All of that is what the company claims. There is no independent testing of how well the agents do these jobs, or of what it costs to keep them working all day, a figure that decides whether a small team can afford them. It is also unclear how many agents one account can run.

Free and Pro users can switch plans under Settings, Account and Subscription. Perplexity says access and features will expand in the coming weeks, with no date, and that an iOS version is coming soon.