Opera launches its AI-centric Neon browser | TechCrunch

"Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature it calls cards. With this Opera joins a growing number of companies like Perplexity and The Browser Company that are trying to make agentic browsers happen. The company first announced that it was working on Neon in May, but the browser was in closed preview."

"First, there is a plain old chatbot that you can converse with to get answers to your questions. The more agentic feature of the browser is called Neon Do, which will help you get tasks done. For instance, it can summarize a Substack blog and post the summary to a Slack channel. As the browser has the context of your browsing history, you can also ask it to fetch details from a YouTube video you watched last week or the post that you read yesterday."

"The Browser Company's Dia has a feature called Skills, which lets you invoke a prompt repeatedly like a command or an app. Neon lets you build a similar repeatable prompt using cards. Think of this as IFTTT (IF This Then That) of AI prompting. You can combine cards like "pull-details" and "comparison-table" to create a new prompt for comparing products across tabs. Just like in Dia, you can build your own Cards or use the ones that are created by the community."

Opera launched Neon, an AI-centric browser that can create apps through AI prompts and build repeatable prompts called cards. Neon will be available by invite in a paid preview at $19.99 per month. The browser includes a conversational chatbot and an agentic feature called Neon Do that automates tasks such as summarizing a Substack post and posting the summary to Slack. Neon uses browsing context to fetch information from previously viewed pages and videos. The browser can write code snippets for visual reports with tables and charts. Users can compose cards into workflows similar to IFTTT and share or use community-created cards.

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