Browser Company Opera has announced a new AI agent called Browser Operators that can complete tasks across a variety of websites.
In a demo video, the company showed AI agents finding the right pair of socks from Walmart. Secure tickets for soccer matches from the club's website. Looking for flights and hotels for your trip on Booking.com. Opera said the feature is readily available to users through its feature drop program.
It is not clear whether agents can work on individual websites or whether they can understand and achieve broader queries such as “Find the cheapest ticket from London to New York for tomorrow.”
It's worth noting that Opera already has AI capabilities and allows users to ask questions about the web pages they are viewing.
The company said users can see what the browser operator is doing and can control the screen at any time. Opera claimed that agents are more secure than their rival products because they operate natively on devices, rather than on cloud instances of browsers or virtual machines.
Space is under fire. Openai's AI agents are called operators and use browsers to enable Pro users to use with ChatGpt. The browser company that manufactures ARC browsers is messing around with a new browser called DIA with agent functionality, and Perplexity is preparing to launch its own browser called Comet.