Opera has launched Opera Neon in May 2025, a new browser featuring AI-powered "operators" that automate online tasks. These operators enable the software to independently perform actions such as online shopping and form completion.
Opera Neon is the first browser fully driven by artificial intelligence. It acts as a user's companion, executing internet activities based on text commands. Opera Neon also comes with an AI agent previously showcased as “Browser Operator.” This gives users the opportunity to automate routine web tasks (like filling forms, making hotel bookings, and even shopping), and have the browser do them by understanding and interacting with the content of web pages. Neon performs these tasks locally in the browser – preserving users' privacy and security.
Opera Neon is a premium subscription product. Early adopters can join the waitlist starting today at www.operaneon.com.
Henrik Lexow, Senior AI Product Director at Opera, states that Opera Neon is designed to understand user intent and execute tasks on their behalf. Opera Neon's users can chat using the browser's native, fully integrated AI agent that allows them to search the web, get reliable answers and contextual information to the webpage they are on, and access most of the functions they have come to expect from an AI chat in a browser.
The launch of Opera Neon marks a significant evolution, integrating and expanding upon previous capabilities like the Browser Operator. Opera Neon allows the early adopter community to try out something never before seen in a browser – a complete AI engine capable of understanding and interpreting what they want to make, and creating it for them. Neon employs AI agents that work beyond the browser – in a virtual machine hosted in the cloud – and can continue working on the users' creation even when they go offline. Opera Neon users can, for example, ask the browser to make a game, a report, a snippet of code, or even a website – it will research, design, and build whatever users need.