Opera’s newest web browser features AI agents that are designed to browse the internet on your behalf. Opera Neon is a “agentic browser,” according to the Norwegian tech company, that has contextual awareness and does tasks for users, such as researching, creating, and designing anything they need.
Strangely, in 2017, Opera unveiled a Neon browser that never gained traction. We’ll see whether this time it works better.
Opera senior AI product director Henrik Lexow stated in the company’s press statement that AI has the potential to drastically alter how we use the internet and carry out a variety of functions within the browser. “Opera Neon brings this to our users’ fingertips.”
An AI engine that Opera claims is “capable of understanding and interpreting” user requests and then producing them with the aid of cloud-based AI agents is a noteworthy example of an early adopter feature. Opera, for instance, claims that Neon can create websites, code snippets, games, and reports. It can even work on several projects at once, even when the user is not online.
Apart from describing Neon as a “premium subscription product,” Opera has not disclosed when this will arrive or how much it will cost, so there is currently little information available to support the browser’s purported capabilities.
Neon provides AI tools that are comparable to those in OpenAI’s Operator and Microsoft’s Copilot, aside from that. Opera claims that users of Neon can browse the web, respond to inquiries, and obtain “contextual information” from the open webpage by utilizing a chatbot interface. Additionally, Opera Neon has an AI Agent called “Browser Operator,” which Opera first unveiled in March. This agent enables users to automate common online operations like shopping, taking online forms, and making reservations for events or lodging. According to Opera, the technology preserves security and privacy by interacting with web page content locally within the browser.
Neon, the fifth browser in Opera’s quiver, has little details at this time. In February, the company unveiled its mindfulness-focused Air browser. Although the company has not given us a specific date, we can only speculate as to when Opera Neon will completely launch into beta and reveal more about its real-world capabilities.
