AI Agents: Adoption and Usage | Perplexity Comet
From AI Safety - Paper Digest by Arian Abbasi, Alan Aqrawi
December 10, 2025 · 5 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the findings of a large-scale study on the adoption and usage of AI agents, highlighting key insights and implications.
Dive into the key findings of the first large-scale field study on the adoption, usage intensity, and use cases of general-purpose AI agents, drawing on hundreds of millions of anonymized user interactions with Perplexity’s Comet Assistant. This paper tracks the frontier shift from conversational LLM chatbots to action-oriented AI agents, which are defined as AI assistants capable of autonomously pursuing user-defined goals by planning and executing multi-step actions. Key insights from the paper include: Who is Adopting: Adopters are concentrated in digital or knowledge-intensive sectors, with Digital Technology representing the largest occupational cluster. Adoption and usage intensity show strong positive correlations with higher GDP per capita and educational attainment. What They Are Doing: Agent use cases are highly focused: Productivity & Workflow (36%) and Learning & Research (21%) collectively account for 57% of all agentic queries . The most prevalent tasks include assisting exercises and summarizing/analyzing research information. Implications: The diffusion of these increasingly capable AI agents carries important implications for researchers, businesses…
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Hosts: Arian Abbasi, Alan Aqrawi
Topics covered
- AI agents
- adoption
- usage intensity
- use cases
- productivity
- workflow
- learning
Keywords
- AI agents
- adoption
- usage intensity
- Perplexity
- Comet Assistant
- productivity
- workflow
- learning
- research
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Organizations: Perplexity
Products: Comet Assistant
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