Perplexity brings its "Teammates" AI agents to the Mac
Teammates was on iPhone and the web only; it is now on the Mac for Perplexity Max subscribers.
Perplexity added helpers to the Mac that follow a long task and come back with the result. It needs a special paid plan.
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follow ongoing work and return a result ready to review, so you do not type every step.
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The details
- Perplexity made Teammates available on the Mac this week; it was on iPhone and the web before.
- Perplexity describes it as a team of AI agents that own ongoing work.
- A task is planned, more agents join as the work grows, and it continues until the result is ready for your review.
- Examples: a growth campaign, triaging bug reports, tracking metrics and researching a new market.
- It needs a paid Perplexity Max subscription.
- 9to5Mac compares it with Grok Bot, Meta Muse and ChatGPT Dots, and notes the last two use a single chat model.
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