The company on Tuesday introduced browser packed with artificial intelligence that promises to do much more than surf the web.
Among its suite of AI features, Neon offers a chatbot ready to answer questions, summarize content, or even retrieve information from your browsing history.
For those who are constantly toggling between tasks, Neon introduces a distinctive tool called Neon Do. Picture this: you ask the browser to summarize a blog post and post it to a Slack channel, or to dig up a video you watched last week. Suddenly, what would take minutes or longer becomes a seamless part of your workflow.
Far from stopping there, Opera has introduced a system called cards. Think of cards as prompts that you can set up and repeat whenever you need, functioning almost like mini apps. Need a comparison table between two products? Simply combine cards for pulling details and creating tables, and Neon will whip it up for you.
Inside Neon’s Powerful Workspace
Neon borrows innovative ideas from rivals but aims to set itself apart with its Tasks feature. This lets users corral their chats and tabs into organized workspaces. If you are familiar with tab groups or workspace tools from other browsers, you will find Tasks takes it a step further by infusing each workspace with its own AI context.
You will have to pay to get in on the action, though. Opera is rolling out Neon to select users at a price of twenty dollars a month.
Krystian Kolondra, executive vice president for browsers at Opera, described their vision with a sense of anticipation, saying, “We built Opera Neon for ourselves – and for everyone who uses AI extensively in their day-to-day. Today, we’re welcoming the first users who will help shape the future of agentic browsing with us.”
Opera is not alone in the push for AI-powered browsers. Competitors like Perplexity and The Browser Company have rolled out their own takes, while heavyweights such as Google and Microsoft are layering more artificial intelligence features into their products.
The demo showed Neon ordering groceries as if it were second nature, but seasoned observers know that what works in a demo does not always hold up in everyday life. Neon’s true value will become apparent only as users put it to the test.
Still, by charging a subscription and pitching Neon to early adopters and heavy-duty users, Opera is signaling it wants to be at the front of the next evolution in browsing.
