Perplexity separates ongoing web teammates from fully local Mac work
Perplexity launched ongoing Teammates for Max subscribers and a separate fully local Computer mode for supported Macs, creating different choices about delegation and where work runs.
Perplexity’s November 6 release makes Teammates available to Max subscribers on the web.
Perplexity says they coordinate ongoing projects through Computer tasks, memory, skills and tools, and can collaborate with other teammates or colleagues through Slack. The product is designed to retain goals and task history across runs and bring results or approval requests back to the user. [1][2]
The same release adds fully local Computer on supported Apple-silicon Macs for Pro, Max and Enterprise subscribers, using Mac app 26.42.0 or later; Perplexity recommends 36 GB of unified memory. Perplexity says Local mode keeps the model, harness and execution on-device without sending personal data to the cloud. Hybrid mode can split work between the Mac and the cloud. The web teammate and the local execution option should not be conflated into a claim that a cloud teammate automatically works offline. [2]
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- Perplexity — Teammates
Provider's design, memory, coordination and review model.
- Perplexity — November 6 changelog
Dated release with subscription tiers, minimum app version, supported hardware and distinction between Local/Hybrid.
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