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- Opera's agentic browser Neon has started shipping to users.
- The AI-enabled browser requires a monthly subscription.
- Interested users tin subordinate a waitlist.
Browser shaper Opera announced coming that nan first unchangeable merchandise of its agentic browser Neon is starting to scope users, pinch much invitations coming soon.
Unlike nan company's flagship browser, Neon isn't free; nan subscription costs will beryllium $19.90/month.
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Opera Neon was first announced backmost successful May, but location were very fewer specifics astir really it would work. That changes arsenic of today. For example, Opera Neon comes pinch a characteristic called Tasks, a caller method of organizing and moving pinch aggregate websites, documents, AI chats, and accepted searches. These tasks are self-contained workspaces, tin of knowing discourse to thief analyze, compare, and enactment connected aliases pinch aggregate sources. While helping you wrong a context, Opera Neon does not entree accusation from everything else.
There's besides nan caller Cards characteristic that enables reusable punctual instructions; it's for illustration having your favourite AI behaviors fresh to beryllium use. For instance, you could adhd "pull-details + comparison-table cards" to a prompt. These make capturing only what matters moreover easier.
Opera Neon is besides tin of acting connected our behalf, acknowledgment to a characteristic called Neon Do, which tin unfastened caller tabs, adjacent unfastened tabs, and execute actions crossed tabs -- while moving wrong a circumstantial context. Neon Do navigates nan web connected your behalf to cheque aggregate sites, comparison information, capable retired forms, stitchery information from pages successful your Tasks, and more. When an action requires personification input, Neon Do pauses and waits for you to act.
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According to Krystian Kolondra, EVP Browser astatine Opera, "We built Opera Neon for ourselves -- and for everyone who uses AI extensively successful their day-to-day. Today, we're welcoming nan first users who will thief style nan early of agentic browsing pinch us."
To subordinate nan waitlist, motion up at https://operaneon.com.