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The Coworker Never Sleeps, and Neither Does the Subscription
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Perplexity is launching Teammates, always-on AI agents that work on ongoing projects using their own virtual machines. The feature requires the company's Max plan at $200 per month, a price above similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to The Decoder. The appeal is a software assistant that can keep working beyond the moment when a user types a prompt. For someone managing an ongoing project, that could mean assigning work to an agent instead of restarting the conversation each time. Its virtual machine provides a place for that work to run. The price makes the promise rather more concrete. At $200 a month, the agent must compete not just with other AI products but with the ordinary question every software buyer asks: does this earn its place in the budget? Continuous availability is an impressive feature, though customers may care more about whether the work produced is useful. The company is selling a colleague who never asks for a day off. The finance department gets a bill that also arrives with admirable consistency. Humans can spend the morning checking what happened overnight, then decide whether that review is a worthwhile exchange for the work they delegated. In the new office hierarchy, the agent has its own machine, the manager has a dashboard, and the subscription has tenure.
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