Opera Launches Its Ai-centric Neon Browser

Browser shaper Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, pinch nan expertise to create apps done AI prompts and create repeatable prompts done a characteristic it calls cards. With this Opera joins a increasing number of companies for illustration Perplexity and The Browser Company that are trying to make agentic browsers happen.

The institution first announced that it was working connected Neon successful May, but nan browser was successful closed preview. It will now commencement sending invites to prime people, who tin usage nan browser for a interest of $19.99 per month.

“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,” said Krystian Kolondra, EVP Browsers astatine Opera, successful a statement.

There are a fewer cardinal parts of nan browser. First, location is simply a plain aged chatbot that you tin converse pinch to get answers to your questions. The much agentic characteristic of nan browser is called Neon Do, which will thief you get tasks done. For instance, it tin summarize a Substack blog and station nan summary to a Slack channel. As nan browser has nan discourse of your browsing history, you tin besides inquire it to fetch specifications from a YouTube video you watched past week aliases nan station that you publication yesterday.

Opera’s caller browser tin besides constitute snippets of code, which is adjuvant for you to create ocular reports pinch tables and charts. It is not clear if you tin stock these mini-apps pinch others astatine nan moment.

The Browser Company’s Dia has a characteristic called Skills, which lets you invoke a punctual many times for illustration a bid aliases an app. Neon lets you build a akin repeatable punctual utilizing cards. Think of this arsenic IFTTT (IF This Then That) of AI prompting. You tin harvester cards for illustration “pull-details” and “comparison-table” to create a caller punctual for comparing products crossed tabs. Just for illustration successful Dia, you tin build your ain Cards aliases usage nan ones that are created by nan community.

Opera Neon is besides bringing a caller tab organizational characteristic called Tasks, which are contained workspaces of AI chats and tabs. This characteristic is much for illustration Tab Groups mixed pinch Arc Browser’s workspaces feature, which has its ain discourse for AI.

In its demo, Opera shows Neon completing tasks for illustration ordering groceries for you. We person seen antecedently that demos don’t often bespeak real-world scenarios — especially pinch AI products. That intends Neon will person to beryllium its declare successful existent life.

With this launch, Opera is straight competing pinch nan likes of Perplexity’s Comet and Dia. Big tech companies for illustration Google and Microsoft are besides adding much AI-powered features to their browsers. Unlike nan competitors, Opera is positioning Neon arsenic a merchandise for powerfulness users pinch its monthly subscription.