Perplexity: AI agents are taking over complex enterprise tasks

New adoption data from Perplexity reveals how AI agents are driving workflow efficiency gains by taking over complex enterprise tasks.

For the past year, the technology sector has operated under the assumption that the next evolution of generative AI would advance beyond conversation into action. While Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as a reasoning engine, “agents” act as the hands, capable of executing complex, multi-step workflows with minimal supervision.

Until now, however, visibility into how these tools are actually being utilised in the wild has been opaque, relying largely on speculative frameworks or limited surveys.

New data released by Perplexity, analysing hundreds of millions of interactions with its Comet browser and assistant, provides a first large-scale field study of general-purpose AI agents. The data indicates that agentic AI is already being deployed by high-value knowledge workers to streamline productivity and ...