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Perplexity
Computer
Perplexity's cloud agent. It carries out multi-step jobs in the background, such as research, documents, apps and email handling, and can run on a schedule.
Which capability it is
- An agent that works through a job on its own (Multi-step autonomous runner)
- The chat window (Conversation surface)
The same thing at other vendors
An agent that works through a job on its own
ChatGPT
ChatGPT Work (rolling out; every plan in the desktop app) · dots (beta)
Claude
Cowork, inside chat · computer use (research preview) · Dispatch · Claude Duet (research preview)Claude Cowork
Mistral Vibe
Vibe Work
The same thing at other vendors
Gemini
Chat — the Chat and Task toggle
Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Chat (formerly Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat)
Details
- Status
- not labelled
- Where you find it
- perplexity.ai/computer
- Part of
- Perplexity
- Plans
- Pro, Max, Enterprise Pro, Enterprise Max. Usage is paid for in credits.
- Admin must turn it on?
- Enterprise admins set usage limits.
Learn
Where we teach it
We name agents in Name the parts and say plainly where their edges are. We don't teach building them, and we say why. The longer class teaches the alternatives: Encode a method so someone else runs it and Set it to run without you.