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Perplexity is building a secret weapon to join the AI coding wars
Business Insider • • business
Key Points:
- Perplexity, a San Francisco-based AI search startup valued at $20 billion, has developed an internal AI coding tool called "Teammate," which it may launch publicly in the future.
- Teammate is designed to manage software projects comprehensively, including owning projects, investigating issues, and monitoring services, and has been used internally since May.
- The tool is model-agnostic and has been tasked with finding bugs in internal systems, signaling Perplexity's move closer to competitors like Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI in the AI coding space.
- Perplexity's CTO, Denis Yarats, has encouraged engineers to rely on AI for coding, predicting that soon developers may "stop looking at code" and use AI exclusively, while also defending the quality of AI-generated code.
- The company has not confirmed if or when Teammate will be publicly released, maintaining a cautious stance amid the competitive AI coding market.
