{"id":2838,"date":"2026-07-08T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justfineinfotech.com\/perplexity-is-quietly-building-an-ai-coding-tool-to-take-on-cursor-and-claude-code\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:57:47","slug":"perplexity-is-quietly-building-an-ai-coding-tool-to-take-on-cursor-and-claude-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justfineinfotech.com\/fr\/perplexity-is-quietly-building-an-ai-coding-tool-to-take-on-cursor-and-claude-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to take on Cursor and Claude Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Perplexity is working on an AI coding tool that builds software from start to finish.<\/li>\n<li>The tool has been used internally since May and is codenamed &#8220;Teammate,&#8221; according to screenshots.<\/li>\n<li>Perplexity may launch the tool publicly, putting it in direct competition with startups like Cursor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The San Francisco-based AI search startup has built an internal AI coding tool that it may launch publicly later down the line, a person familiar with the matter said<\/p>\n<p>For now, Perplexity has codenamed the tool &#8220;Teammate,&#8221; and its engineers have been using it since May, according to screenshots obtained by Business Insider<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear exactly if or when Perplexity, which was valued at $20 billion in a funding round last year, will launch the product. If it does, it would put Perplexity  originally focused on an AI-powered search engine that competes with <a href=\"https:\/\/justfineinfotech.com\/fr\/google-on-using-markdown-for-ai-seo\/\" title=\"Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO\">Google<\/a>  much closer to vying for supremacy with Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI, all of which have built widely-used AI coding products<\/p>\n<p>Teammate is meant to oversee softwareprojects from start to finish, according to an internal announcement seen by Business Insider<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s built for long-horizon engineering work: owning projects, investigating issues, and monitoring services,&#8221; the announcement reads<\/p>\n<p>A Perplexity spokesperson declined to comment<\/p>\n<p>Perplexity engineers have given the tool tasks such as finding bugs in internal systems, screenshots show<\/p>\n<p>The AI tool is model-agnostic, meaning that it&#8217;s not built on any particular chatbot, the person familiar with the matter said<\/p>\n<p>Perplexity&#8217;s chief technology officer, Denis Yarats, has also urged the startup&#8217;s engineers to use AI for coding<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before Teammate launched internally, the executive wrote in messages viewed by Business Insider that by the end of the year or sooner, software engineers should &#8220;stop looking at code&#8221; and just use AI<\/p>\n<p>Yarats also defended AI against accusations that it produces &#8220;slop,&#8221; or poor-quality code<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slop is not going to be a thing&#8221; as long as the code it generates passes quality checks, Yarats wrote<\/p>\n<p>Have a tip? 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