ToolingNovember 6, 2026

Perplexity launches Teammates AI colleagues with high internal deployment

Perplexity has launched an artificial intelligence tool called Teammates designed to function like human staff. According to reported figures, the internal number of these AI colleagues has reached twenty times the total number of human employees. The system enables users to assign specific tasks directly to automated assistants.

Why it matters

The approach demonstrates how automated agents might be scaled internally for operations, though teams will need to evaluate how effectively high ratios of synthetic workers coordinate on real workloads.

Key points

Perplexity released Teammates to enable artificial intelligence systems to perform work like employees.
The organisation reported that internal deployments reached twenty times its human headcount.
The system allows users to allocate work directly to the artificial intelligence agents.

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