At MWC 2025, Opera announced the Browser Operator, a native AI agent that can perform browsing tasks for users.
“For more than 30 years, the browser gave you access to the web, but it has never been able to get stuff done for you. Now it can. This is different from anything we’ve seen or shipped so far,” said Krystian Kolondra, EVP “The Browser Operator we’re presenting today marks the first step towards shifting the role of the browser from a display engine to an application that is agentic and performs tasks for its users.”
The Browser Operator is designed to give users superpowers when browsing – through AI agentics. The concept is simple: Browser Operator allows the browser users to explain what they need it to do in natural language, and the browser sets out to perform tasks for them.
While working on completing a task, Browser Operator lets users see what’s going on at any point in the process as well as what steps it took to complete it. During this process, the user remains in full control and can take over or cancel the task at any given moment.
Opera’s AI agent differs from the approaches to agentic browsing that are currently being tested by other companies. Opera’s solution utilizes native, client-side solutions. It protects user privacy by not relying on screenshots or video capture of the browsing session, or a version of the browser running in the cloud or a virtual machine. Instead, the Browser Operator is interacting deep in the core of the browser, keeping user data locally on the device.
Availability
Opera’s Browser Operator is currently in preview mode of the upcoming functionality. Opera is expected to launch the new Browser Operator as part of its AI feature drop program soon.
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