AI Coworkers Today
Season 1
OpenAI Hires Consultants and Perplexity Launches Computer
by Augmented Humans
The chatbot phase is over. In this episode, we break down the day AI got implementation muscle: OpenAI brought in the consulting giants, and Perplexity unveiled Computer—a persistent, multi-model digital worker built to handle real enterprise jobs, not just answer prompts.
Yesterday, AI stopped being a chatbot and started acting like a real coworker. In this episode, we break down the moment agents got eyes, hands, memory, and management—and what that means for finance, legal, customer service, and the humans suddenly supervising the machines.