The company has officially announced the new Opera Neon premium subscription browser - with the waitlist now open - which can understand commands in natural language and perform a variety of tasks.
In a press release, the firm said: "A result of years of development, Opera Neon is a browser that can understand users' intent and perform tasks for them as well as bring their ideas and needs to life on the web.
"To achieve this, Opera Neon introduces agentic AI browsing capabilities that go beyond traditional browsing and turn user intent into action."
They described the programme as "a new agentic browser that rethinks the role of the browser in the coming generation of the AI agentic web".
Henrik Lexow, Senior AI Product Director at Opera, said in a statement: "We're at a point where AI can fundamentally change the way we use the internet and perform all sorts of tasks in the browser. Opera Neon brings this to our users' fingertips.
"We see it as a collaborative platform to shape the next chapter of agentic browsing together with our community."
Users will be able to chat with the browser's "native, fully integrated AI agent", allowing 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 platform also features an AI agent which "gives users the opportunity to automate routine web tasks", such as hotel bookings, shopping and filling out forms.
The browser can carry them out instead "by understanding and interacting with the content of web pages".
It's noted that tasks are performed locally in the browser, thereby protecting your privacy.
Also, it's noted that the early adopters can experience "complete AI engine capable of understanding and interpreting what they want to make, and creating it for them".
The release continued: "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."
