Perplexity has launched Teammates, a new feature that lets AI agents handle ongoing work without requiring a fresh prompt for every task. The agents can take on different roles, remember project context, and continue working while users focus on something else.

Announced Nov. 5, Teammates is initially available to individual Perplexity Max subscribers on the web. Access costs $200 per month or $2,000 annually, and native mobile and desktop support is coming later.

Unlike a chatbot that responds to one request at a time, Teammates is designed around longer-running assignments. Users can give an agent a goal, monitor its progress, and redirect it when needed. The feature builds on Perplexity Computer, the company’s existing AI agent platform.

Teammates allows users to assign different jobs to separate AI agents.…