Perplexity’s new tool deploys teams of AI agents

The viral OpenClaw AI tool has already spawned dozens of imitators on GitHub and has spurred pivots from major AI players like Meta. Now Perplexity is throwing its hat into the personal AI agent arena, with a new tool that can put teams of sub-agents under your command.

Unveiled on Wednesday, Computer is being billed as a “general-purpose digital worker that operates the same interfaces you do”–or, as chief Perplexity business officer Dmitry Shevelenko calls it, a “massively multi-model...