{"id":21723,"date":"2025-03-04T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/opera-unveils-ai-agent-browser-operator\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:44:34","slug":"opera-unveils-ai-agent-browser-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/opera-unveils-ai-agent-browser-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Unveils AI Agent &#8216;Browser Operator&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has launched an AI agent, Browser Operator, capable of performing various tasks on websites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lLVSLAekYk?si=sqMwlaxXTz7773Vk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A demonstration video showcases the digital assistant&#8217;s capabilities: finding socks on Walmart, purchasing football match tickets on a club&#8217;s website, and searching for flights and hotels via Booking.<\/p>\n<p>The tool will soon be available to users as part of Opera&#8217;s <span data-descr=\"Opera's program allowing users to test new and experimental browser features before their official release\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Feature Drop<\/span> program. It remains unclear whether the agent can operate on virtually any site and handle broader requests such as &#8220;finding the cheapest ticket from London to New York for tomorrow&#8221; across various platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Users can monitor Browser Operator&#8217;s activities and take control of the screen at any time. According to Opera, its agent is safer than alternatives because it operates on the device rather than on a <span data-descr=\"a browser running remotely on a server and accessible to the user via a web interface\" class=\"old_tooltip\">cloud-based browser instance<\/span> or virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>AI agents represent a burgeoning sector in the artificial intelligence industry, attracting significant interest from startups. In January, OpenAI introduced its own solution, &#8220;Operator,&#8221; which can perform internet tasks on behalf of users.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Anthropic <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/anthropics-ai-learns-to-navigate-computers-like-humans\">released<\/a> an updated version of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, capable of interacting with computers like a human\u2014moving the cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has launched an AI agent, Browser Operator, capable of performing various tasks on websites. A demonstration video showcases the digital assistant&#8217;s capabilities: finding socks on Walmart, purchasing football match tickets on a club&#8217;s website, and searching for flights and hotels via Booking. The tool will soon be available to users as part of Opera&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1751,438,1084],"class_list":["post-21723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ai-agents","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-opera"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"116","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}