Perplexity Launches Teammates for Max Subscribers
Perplexity's new Teammates feature runs isolated AI agents for individual Max subscribers on the web, currently in research preview.
Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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Perplexity launched Teammates for individual Max subscribers on the web on November 5, 2026. The feature is a research preview, and each teammate runs on its own isolated computer with a separate desktop, browser, and cookies.
Why it matters
Teammates lets users delegate ongoing work to AI agents that act on connected tools when something changes, stopping to ask for input when needed. Its isolation design and encrypted credentials are intended to keep those agents' access separated from each other and from the user's stored logins.
Each teammate runs on its own isolated computer with a separate desktop, browser, and cookies, and its credentials are encrypted so teammates cannot view them. The extraction does not provide performance benchmarks, model specifications, or credit-cost figures for complex or parallel tasks.
The players
Perplexity
Perplexity is the AI company that developed Perplexity Computer and launched the Teammates feature.
The details
Teammates is built from Projects, skills, and memory within Perplexity Computer and uses its tasks, tools, and memory. It draws from the Max plan's monthly credit allocation, with complex or parallel tasks consuming more credits, and native apps are in development.
Timeline
November 5, 2026: Perplexity Teammates launches for individual Max subscribers on the web.
The Tech Race
Teammates extends Perplexity Computer by packaging its Projects, skills, and memory into persistent agents that monitor connected tools on a user's behalf. Its per-agent isolated desktops and encrypted credentials mark a design choice focused on separating agent access from the user's own accounts.
Max subscribers on the web can now delegate recurring tasks to teammates that draw from their monthly credit allocation, with complex or parallel work using more credits. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts are not included by default, so workplace users on those plans will need to wait for access.
The takeaway
Teammates shows how AI tools are moving from answering single prompts toward agents that keep working in the background. Users should track how many credits their recurring tasks consume, since complex or parallel work costs more.
Further reading
For more on how agent tools like this are reshaping software, see the Artificial Intelligence section.
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