Perplexity Builds Teammate Coding Tool, Expanding Beyond Its $20 Billion AI Search Business
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Updated · Business Insider · Jul 8
Perplexity Builds Teammate Coding Tool, Expanding Beyond Its $20 Billion AI Search Business
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jul 8
Summary
Perplexity has built an internal AI coding tool codenamed Teammate, and engineers have been using it since May, according to a person familiar with the matter and screenshots reviewed by Business Insider.
Teammate is designed to manage software projects end to end—handling long-horizon engineering work, investigating issues and monitoring services—rather than just generating snippets of code.
Perplexity engineers have already used the model-agnostic tool to find bugs in internal systems, while CTO Denis Yarats has pushed staff to rely more heavily on AI for coding.
A public launch remains unclear, but any release would move Perplexity beyond AI search and into direct competition with coding-product leaders including Cursor, Anthropic and OpenAI.