Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (TheVerge · Nov 6, 2026)

Perplexity launches always-on AI agent Teammates at $200/month

KEY FACTS

Perplexity has released Teammates, an AI agent product built for work scenarios.
Teammates can run around the clock and take on multiple roles within the same workspace.
The product can call on a user's existing projects, skills, and memory data.
Teammates is built on Perplexity Computer and supports collaboration and long-running, large-scale tasks.
Using Teammates requires a Max subscription at $200 per month.

KEY DATA

$200Max plan monthly fee

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Perplexity is turning the agent into a resident "coworker," a direction aligned with OpenAI and Anthropic, but the $200 monthly fee raises the bar very high. The real signal is that agents are starting to be deployed at scale per seat and per organization; the battle for the workflow entry point will shift from the chat box to the task execution layer.

Source: TheVerge report