AI Agents Have Been Getting All the Buzz. Perplexity and Anthropic Just Hit Back.

AI agents have been getting all the buzz — but Perplexity and Anthropic just said hold my beer. Both companies dropped updates that push squarely into agentic territory — persistent memory, scheduled automation, mobile access, multi-model orchestration.

Perplexity launched Perplexity Computer, a new product that orchestrates 19 specialized AI models — Claude Opus 4.6 for reasoning, Gemini for research, ChatGPT 5.2 for context recall, Grok for lightweight tasks, Nano Banana for images, Veo 3.1 for video — connected to 400+ apps with persistent memory and real file system access. It handles long-running jobs and sandboxed code execution. CEO Aravind Srinivas calls it an "orchestra" versus a single-model system. $200/month for Max subscribers.

Anthropic shipped three Claude features in 48 hours:

• Claude Code Remote Control: Mobile and browser access to local coding sessions via QR code or claude.ai/code. Execution stays on your machine — mobile is just a window. Pro/Max only.

• Claude Cowork Scheduled Tasks: Automate recurring workflows via prompts and plugins on hourly, daily, or weekly cadence. Desktop app only. 15 new plugins added.

• Claude Code Auto-Memory: Remembers project context, debugging patterns, and preferred approaches across sessions — no more re-explaining your stack every time.

The reality: memory, scheduling, mobile access, and multi-agent orchestration are the core features dedicated AI assistant platforms are built around. The big labs just decided they want that market too.