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Perplexity Hires Teammates Who Never Ask Where the Coffee Went
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Perplexity has launched Teammates, personal AI agents intended to help with ongoing work. The always-on agents can take multiple roles in a workspace and draw on existing projects, skills and memory from Perplexity tools, positioning the company against other providers of work-focused AI. The idea moves beyond a chatbot that answers one question at a time. A workspace agent is presented as a continuing participant in the tasks and materials people already use. Instead of introducing each request from scratch, users are promised help that can draw on an existing context. That is a tempting office proposition: more assistance without another calendar to coordinate. It also makes the human side of the arrangement important. A team must still decide what work to delegate, what information an agent should use and how to review what comes back. Always available is a description of access, not a guarantee that every task has been completed as intended. The name Teammates does a lot of work itself. It suggests cooperation, shared history and a colleague who understands the project. The actual product remains software operating inside a workspace. It may never ask for lunch or complain about a meeting, but it has already acquired the most common office perk: a reassuring title and a long list of responsibilities.
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