Perplexity Is Building an AI Coding Tool to Take on Cursor and OpenAI

Perplexity might be the newest entrant to the red-hot AI coding wars.

The San Francisco-based AI search startup has constructed an inside AI coding software that it might launch publicly later down the road, an individual aware of the matter stated.

For now, Perplexity has codenamed the software “Teammate,” and its engineers have been utilizing it since Might, based on screenshots obtained by Enterprise Insider.

It is unclear precisely if or when Perplexity, which was valued at $20 billion in a funding spherical final yr, will launch the product. If it does, it would put Perplexity — initially centered on an AI-powered search engine that competes with Google — a lot nearer to vying for supremacy with Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI, all of which have constructed widely-used AI coding merchandise.

Teammate is supposed to supervise software program initiatives from begin to end, based on an inside announcement seen by Enterprise Insider.

“It is constructed for long-horizon engineering work: proudly owning initiatives, investigating points, and monitoring providers,” the announcement reads.

A Perplexity spokesperson declined to remark.

Perplexity engineers have given the software duties similar to discovering bugs in inside programs, screenshots present.

The AI software is model-agnostic, that means that it isn’t constructed on any specific chatbot, the individual aware of the matter stated.

Perplexity’s chief expertise officer, Denis Yarats, has additionally urged the startup’s engineers to make use of AI for coding.

A number of weeks earlier than Teammate launched internally, the manager wrote in messages considered by Enterprise Insider that by the top of the yr or sooner, software program engineers ought to “cease taking a look at code” and simply use AI.

Yarats additionally defended AI towards accusations that it produces “slop,” or poor-quality code.

“Slop isn’t going to be a factor” so long as the code it generates passes high quality checks, Yarats wrote.

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