Opera Announces Neon, a Fully Agentic Web Browser

Opera today announced Opera Neon, an upcoming “fully agentic” web browser that will proactively work on your behalf. There’s a waitlist if you want to get started early.

“Opera Neon is our first fully agentic browser,” the Opera team writes in the announcement post. “Opera Neon is the first step towards fundamentally reimagining what a browser can be in the age of intelligent agents. Much more than a place to view web pages, Neon can browse with you or for you, take action, and help you get things done – whether that’s researching a topic, automating a workflow, or building something entirely new.”

Opera says it’s been working on an agentic AI for two years, and the first results of that work can be seen in the Browser Operator agent it previewed back in March. But Neon–which oddly takes the same name as a previous concept browser it created back in 2017–is “a big leap forward,” Opera says. Instead of just integrating AI tools into an existing browser, as it and other browser makes have done so far, Neon has been created to embrace the agentic web, or what Opera calls “Web 4o.” If this seems similar to what The Browser Company is doing by dropping Arc to create a new Dia AI-based web browser, you’re getting it.

“AI agents can perform tasks for you in the browser like planning and booking your holidays,” Opera explains. “They can understand what you want and do your shopping for you, or even research and find information that is compiled specifically for you. Or, what about an AI agent that can help you make things that you can instantly share with others? You could simply state your wish and deploy AI to make a website, a prototype of a game, or even an animated model that explains the law of momentum ready to share with your class.”

Opera Neon will address three primary use cases:

Chat. The AI agent is the browser’s “native, fully integrated AI,” and you can chat with it to search the web, get contextual information about a webpage you’re viewing, and provide all the other features we associate with AI chatbots today.

Do. This is the Browser Operator bit that Opera previewed a few months ago: Neon can do things for you on the web, like fill out a form, book a trip, or go shopping on your behalf. And does so locally, solely inside the browser, to preserve security and privacy.

Make. Using a “cloud computer,” Neon will understand what you want to make and get it done even if you have to go offline. When you get back, it will present you with the results. This one is a bit vague, but Opera says that Neon will “help you when you have big, hard tasks to solve, and want to build new things to use later, either by yourself or with others.” You can also give it multiple tasks at once, “enabling true agentic multitasking right in your browser.” This is, in other words, an orchestrator for AI agents. The cloud computer is a virtual machine on Opera’s European-hosted servers that will break down tasks into individual sub-tasks and then accomplish each in turn. Things you might make include a small videogame, a website comparing stocks, or a research report about any topic, Opera notes.

“With Neon, gone are the days when the lack of technical know-how was a complete blocker to the things you could create on the web,” the company explains. “This new agentic technology is here to help you create, to take your ideas and turn them into something digitally tangible and shareable, all from within the Opera Neon browser.”

If you’re interested in getting an early peek at Opera Neon, you can sign-up for the waitlist, and learn more, on the Opera website.