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Opera's Neon AI browser was publicly released on Thursday.
It comes with a hefty price tag, $19.90/month.
Gartner recently advised businesses to avoid using AI browsers.
Opera's AI-powered web browser, Neon, is now available to everyone, but it comes with a hefty price tag of $19.90 per month -- probably more than most people are willing to pay for a technology still in its infancy and with unresolved security risks.
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Unveiled in October with exclusive waitlist access, Neon is "an experimental browser for AI power users," Opera wrote in a press release published Thursday. The Norway-based software company is hoping customers will be willing to pay for an AI browser that leverages multiple frontier models and can handle a variety of web tasks. It's facing ample competition, though: Perplexity and OpenAI have both launched their own free web browsers, called Comet and Atlas, respectively. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google have been embedding AI features more deeply into Edge and Chrome.
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