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Opera Neon Browser Drops Waitlist, Adds Deep Research Agent

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Opera today opened access to its agentic Neon browser, allowing anyone to subscribe to the app for AI power users. Opera Neon has been available in a closed "Founders" phase since it launched on October 2, but the waitlist has now been removed.

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Costing $19.90 per month, Neon aims to go beyond traditional browsing by using AI to execute tasks directly within the browser. Neon can open and close tabs, compare information across multiple sources, and complete transactions on a user's behalf.

The service grants immediate access to top-tier models such as Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1, Veo 3.1, and Nano Banana Pro. Complementing these models are the Neon Chat, Do, and Make agents, which are designed to autonomously handle complex tasks ranging from booking full travel itineraries to building websites, generating videos, and editing documents.

A new addition, the ODRA deep research agent, is designed for sustained, in-depth investigation. Its rapid "1-minute research" mode can gather and synthesize information on complex subjects while providing clear sourcing, offering a faster path to structured insight.

The browser competes with similar AI offerings from the likes of Perplexity (Comet Browser) and The Browser Company (Dia Browser). Opera Neon can be downloaded from the Opera website.

Article Link: Opera Neon Browser Drops Waitlist, Adds Deep Research Agent
 
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Every time AI companies show their products, they always put the same ridiculous questions -- like the one on the article's picture. Wasting so much energy and water just for the most absurd reasons.

Altman's interview in Jimmy Fallon showcases this perfectly. They really expect you to be as useless as possible.
 
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Opera today opened access to its agentic Neon browser, allowing anyone to subscribe to the app for AI power users. Opera Neon has been available in a closed "Founders" phase since it launched on October 2, but the waitlist has now been removed.

neon_Start_Page_dark02.jpg

Costing $19.90 per month, Neon aims to go beyond traditional browsing by using AI to execute tasks directly within the browser. Neon can open and close tabs, compare information across multiple sources, and complete transactions on a user's behalf.

The service grants immediate access to top-tier models such as Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1, Veo 3.1, and Nano Banana Pro. Complementing these models are the Neon Chat, Do, and Make agents, which are designed to autonomously handle complex tasks ranging from booking full travel itineraries to building websites, generating videos, and editing documents.

A new addition, the ODRA deep research agent, is designed for sustained, in-depth investigation. Its rapid "1-minute research" mode can gather and synthesize information on complex subjects while providing clear sourcing, offering a faster path to structured insight.

The browser competes with similar AI offerings from the likes of Perplexity (Comet Browser) and The Browser Company (Dia Browser). Opera Neon can be downloaded from the Opera website.

Article Link: Opera Neon Browser Drops Waitlist, Adds Deep Research Agent
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LOL, $20 per month to use a web browser. Ya, OK.
 
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I'll give you guys a very simple scenario: what if an AI-based browser could search on eBay for a product, check if the price is low, the description isn't deceptive, the seller has good feedback and comments, valuate if everything's fine and place a bid for me?
If I had a business reselling stuff, that sole feature would be worth $20/month for me. Probably even $100 or more.
I have no idea if this is the case here but it's definitely gonna happen. AI can be very useful.
 
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I'll give you guys a very simple scenario: what if an AI-based browser could search on eBay for a product, check if the price is low, the description isn't deceptive, the seller has good feedback and comments, valuate if everything's fine and place a bid for me?
If I had a business reselling stuff, that sole feature would be worth $20/month for me. Probably even $100 or more.
I have no idea if this is the case here but it's definitely gonna happen. AI can be very useful.
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Apparently it will close tabs for you!
 
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Apparently it will close tabs for you!
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Ok, if that's the case, it's not worth it 😁
But I see many people constantly commenting against AI stuff. And yes, most of it is useless. Just like most apps (especially apps forced into other products) are useless. But that doesn't changed the fact that the relatively few useful apps completely revolutionised the world we live in.
I saw a very negative attitude towards AI browsers and I know they're kind white canvases right now but good uses will eventually bubble up and I think they could be game changers in many fields.
 
cicalinarrot said:
I'll give you guys a very simple scenario: what if an AI-based browser could search on eBay for a product, check if the price is low, the description isn't deceptive, the seller has good feedback and comments, valuate if everything's fine and place a bid for me?
If I had a business reselling stuff, that sole feature would be worth $20/month for me. Probably even $100 or more.
I have no idea if this is the case here but it's definitely gonna happen. AI can be very useful.
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A very simple, algorithmic script/bot that you could have made decades ago would do it with fewer resources and more reliably. LLMs are just statistical language algorithms tuned for the Turing test, but parroting language != intelligence.
 
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I'll give you guys a very simple scenario: what if an AI-based browser could search on eBay for a product, check if the price is low, the description isn't deceptive, the seller has good feedback and comments, valuate if everything's fine and place a bid for me?
If I had a business reselling stuff, that sole feature would be worth $20/month for me. Probably even $100 or more.
I have no idea if this is the case here but it's definitely gonna happen. AI can be very useful.
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LLMs hallucinate. Not something I would trust with a financial transaction.
 
When agentic AI stops giving me the wrong answer to every question I ask, call me. I’ve tried, friends. I’ve gone to prompt engineering talks. It all just seems to be getting less reliable. Most experience is with ChatGPT.
 
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LLMs hallucinate. Not something I would trust with a financial transaction.
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How often? And do they, on very simple tasks? And how likely is it if you ask them to double check?
Plus, I wouldn't let them buy houses but I'd take the risk on minor transactions.
 
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A very simple, algorithmic script/bot that you could have made decades ago would do it with fewer resources and more reliably. LLMs are just statistical language algorithms tuned for the Turing test, but parroting language != intelligence.
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I'm very tired of the argument "AI is not intelligent because it only mimics language". It means almost nothing, it provides zero information about what AI can and cannot do. And unless by "being intelligent" (there are several definitions) you mean exclusively "being sentient" or "having the abstract idea of things", it's wrong.
I've heard it a thousand times, almost every time I try to say anything positive (of course there are negative aspects too, some very bad) about the use of AI. To me it became just the standard sentence people use to dismiss AI and feel superior to it, I'm sorry.

Computer software that can learn with experience instead of pure human-produced code and create a context-driven conversation, reasoning, image, computer code, voice, song and more... well, if you don't like to call it intelligent, find a way to say that it's completely new and has an infinity of uses that old software didn't have.
You can use your definition of intelligence to claim it isn't intelligent (even though it's pretty much built on the literal mechanism of organic neural networks), but using that conclusion to dismiss all of its capabilities is just a rhetorical trick.

It can do things wrong? Yes. But it became a viable reality quite recently. Think of the state of mobile phones 10 years after the first one was sold.
Plus just inserting checks very much reduces its mistakes.

I call intelligence the ability to put things in the correct relationship with each other (which is also close to its literal meaning). For this functional purpose, AI is more intelligent than most humans. You don't want to call it intelligence? Let's just call it a very useful tool.

...and about algorithmic scripts for eBay, many insertion names and descriptions appear to be tailor-made to fool simple mechanical bots. Understanding what something like "MacBook Pro - Intel core i5 (no i3 i7)" means is very simple with AI and a nightmare for traditional code, that may also stop working with the simplest site update. If a thing like that is made with AI, it works on all sites, it fears no updates and it can have simple human-in-the-loop or deterministic automation to make it safer.

These kind of things are gonna be a thing and they'll be big, like it or not. There's no use in pretending it's all bad.
 
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These dudes at Opera are insane if they think this product is gonna go anywhere. There's so many things wrong with this I don't know where to start.
 
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Ah AI the present day catchphrase pop start like Machine Learning, 3D, Cyber, Internet was of days past.

Wonder what will be next after this AI horse has been attached to everything including your toaster oven and kitchen sink.
 
cicalinarrot said:
I'll give you guys a very simple scenario: what if an AI-based browser could search on eBay for a product, check if the price is low, the description isn't deceptive, the seller has good feedback and comments, valuate if everything's fine and place a bid for me?
If I had a business reselling stuff, that sole feature would be worth $20/month for me. Probably even $100 or more.
I have no idea if this is the case here but it's definitely gonna happen. AI can be very useful.
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Would you trust it? There's subscription vibe coding agents out deleting people's hard drives then saying 'oops, my bad, i know you told me not to and I promised I wouldn't, oops...'
 
am I misunderstanding something about Opera's business model? they put out so many browsers but I dont get why
 
cicalinarrot said:
I'll give you guys a very simple scenario: what if an AI-based browser could search on eBay for a product, check if the price is low, the description isn't deceptive, the seller has good feedback and comments, valuate if everything's fine and place a bid for me?
If I had a business reselling stuff, that sole feature would be worth $20/month for me. Probably even $100 or more.
I have no idea if this is the case here but it's definitely gonna happen. AI can be very useful.
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Sounds great.

Your competitors will be using it too.

Then..

The sellers will use AI to ensure they are getting the maximum possible price they can sell it for, and use AI to write the ads and do all the other value adding services that you currently perform in order to make it appealing and sell that item into your market at a higher price.

Your customers will have AI feeds for those products directly to your customers also bypassing you.
 
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