Perplexity launches AI agents for work

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Perplexity is launching personal AI agents called teammates that handle long-running, ongoing work such as monitoring, investigations, and multi-step projects across tools like Slack and GitHub. Built on Perplexity Computer, teammates run in isolated environments and can collaborate with each other or human colleagues. They are initially rolling out on the web and iOS for Perplexity Max subscribers. Open article →

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Reception is polarized: several users argue Perplexity has lost relevance due to worsening product/model quality and limited moat, while others defend it as still useful (fact-finding/search UI) and see “agent teammates” as a credible next step in persistent, multi-tool work.

HN · jwr Claims Perplexity has been degrading the service to save money by “forgetting” a smarter model and “accidentally” switching users to a cheaper/dumber one, with Claude/ChatGPT now offering similar functionality but better models/features.

HN · Mattasher First-hand power-user view: says Perplexity is used daily as a fact finder/search engine with a cleaner Google-like interface (no ads/spam) and “basic analysis,” including long-context synthesis with memory.

HN · tyre Raises a specific, high-signal corporate concern: asks whether employees got secondary sales/tender offers, suggesting a risk of value extraction where common shareholders could end up with zero.

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