Following its official announcement in May, Opera will today start giving access to Neon, its subscription-based AI browser with agentic capabilities. Here are some of its most interesting features.
With Neon, Opera joins the incipient, but increasingly competitive, AI-based browser market.
And in an attempt to stand out, the company has developed a few interesting features that will help users make the most of Neon’s agentic capabilities.
Tasks
First up is Tasks. It’s designed to understand the context of the tabs you have open, whether that’s a document, a webpage, or a search, and use that information to gather details and perform the action you’re trying to complete.
Here’s how Opera describes the feature:
“Tasks are self-contained workspaces that understand context and make it possible to use the AI to analyze, compare, and act across multiple sources at once. You can think of it as Opera Neon creating a mini-browser for each of your tasks, where the AI understands what you’re doing and helps you within this context—without accessing information from everything else in your browser.”
Here is an example of the feature in action, where the user requests Neon to group and compare notes between Notion, Google Docs, and Gmail:
Cards
This is perhaps the most promising idea of Neon. With Cards, users can save the prompts they use more frequently, rather than typing them in from scratch for repetitive tasks. Users can also mix, match, and daisy-chain Cards for more complex tasks. Here’s Opera:
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