Opera bets big on Opera Neon, an agentic browser that runs things for you, even when

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Opera unveiled Opera Neon today, a fully agentic browser. Opera Software describes it as a browser that is "designed to understand your intent, assist with tasks, and take actions".

If you have been with us for at least a decade, you may remember that Opera Software launched Opera Neon back in 2017 already as a concept browser. This old concept browser has little in common with the new, other than that it is also pushing into new territories.

Neon goes further than current AI integrations in browsers according to Opera Software. While it supports AI-based chats, getting summaries of webpages, and all those features, it is pushing the idea of agentic browsing.

Put plainly, users may use the AI for certain tasks, like planning and booking holidays, do some shopping, run research operations, code, create games for them and more.

Opera integrated an AI into the browser natively. This is one of the core differences to Google's integration of Gemini in Chrome or Microsoft's integration of Copilot in Edge.

Opera Software highlights that the AI operates natively in the browser, so that everything stays private and local. At least, that is what the description makes it sound like



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