This is what you can do with Opera Neon: The Next-Gen AI Agentic Browser

This content originally appeared on Opera News and was authored by Santiago Benavides García

Just over a month ago, we announced Opera Neon, the first truly agentic browser to allow you to use AI agents to browse the web, plan trips and events, buy things online, and create web applications that you can share with your friends.

With this announcement, we’ve seen an incredible number of people joining the waitlist to try it out, and we’ve also received many questions about Opera Neon’s capabilities. The amount of interest that you’ve shown for Opera Neon confirms that you want an AI browser, and it makes us very eager to keep developing Neon, testing it out, and creating the next generation.

While the first lucky few are already testing Neon, we want to show you more of Opera Neon so you can better grasp what agentic browsing is all about. In this blog post, we’ll be going through some examples of Opera Neon’s capabilities, but if you aren’t quite familiar with what this browser is, or what AI agentics means, please head to the following blog post.

What Opera Neon brings to the table

With Opera Neon, we’re going way beyond the usual AI chat that is available in all Opera browsers on desktop and mobile. We’re giving users tools that let AI browse the web, complete tasks and even create things for you – things that can be hosted on the web.

What does this mean in practice? It means that Opera Neon is capable of using AI to perform tasks and create things way beyond a simple chatbot, or a text generating and summarizing agent. Therefore, you’ll be able to do more than just summarizing emails, documents and webpages. With Opera Neon you can deploy AI to create webpages and applications that can be interacted with, shared, and used at any time and by anyone – meaning that everyone can see and interact with them, as long as they have the link.

You can use this to your benefit to create web applications that lead to interactive educational content for yourself, your kid, or whomever you want – like a language learning application. You can also use it to create an interactive travel guide that will help you make the best out of your vacation. You can even create games to have fun with your friends – Opera Neon gives a boost to your creativity by letting you make things that would otherwise require very technical skills.

Additionally, you can also automate certain browsing tasks with Opera Neon, especially those mundane ones that take you time and effort, which could be used in something else. For example, Neon can help you apply to jobs, plan trips for you, or even browse through articles and bring up the most important things. It helps you perform these tasks quicker and allows you to focus on the things that really need your attention.

Create apps & host webpages

One of the key differentiating factors of Opera Neon consists of being able to Make web apps and host them for you – meaning that you can access them whenever you want, and share them with whomever you’d like.

In the following examples we’ll provide you with links to both the Opera Neon pipeline that created each application, as well as the link to the end result. The pipeline lets you see the prompt, the steps, and the process that Opera Neon employed to make each application or webpage, and additionally you can also check out the files that Neon used to create the web application.

Let’s look at some examples:

Using Opera Neon to make educational content

Opera Neon can Make and host shareable web apps that you can use to learn and teach something. For example, we have created a web app to learn and practice our Norwegian skills:

Here is the pipeline showcasing the process that Neon followed
And here is the web application. Bear in mind that you need to progress through it to get to the next level – Neon took it personally and wants you to truly progress in your Norwegian skills.

When we say that it can help you create apps that you can use to learn something, it means that you can use it yourself and learn in an interactive way about the topic you want. But since it hosts a shareable link, you could share it with a classmate, a colleague, a family member, or whomever you want – anyone can open and interact with the apps made with Opera Neon.

The coolest part about this is that it can help you learn whatever you want in an interactive way. For instance, I was interested in the three-body problem – not the books, or the series, but the actual mathematical conundrum they’re based on. So, not being well-versed in the world of physics or mathematics, I asked Opera Neon to make an interactive web page that explains what is it about and why is it supposedly impossible to solve:

Here is the pipeline showcasing what Neon went through.
Here is the interactive webpage that helps you better understand this problem with the help of visualizations and animations that you can control.

Making travel plans with Neon

One of the trips I wanted to do for a long time was to go to Bolivia, a beautiful country high-up in the Andean mountain range. Not knowing much about the country, and unwilling to pay for a travel agency to micromanage my trip, I decided to use Opera Neon to give me a hand.

So, I told Neon the following: “I’m going to La Paz in Bolivia. For 1 week, starting July 10. I like extreme sports and love to experience local food. Create a detailed interactive handbook itinerary, rich with many options, with maps, images, attractions descriptions, essential local phrases and cultural “dos and don’ts.”

With the guide that Neon created for me, I had an overall structure of what my trip was going to be like and which activities I was going to do. After getting this travel guide, I used Neon’s browsing capabilities to start finding restaurants, extreme sports centers, and hotels.

You can check the pipeline that Opera Neon created for this guide.
And you can have a look at the travel guide in this link.

Creating a retro game

With Opera Neon you can Make a retro game in a matter of minutes, in this case we wanted to make a couple of them:

We created a retro Pong web game that can be single player, or two players can share the keyboard and play on the same device. The prompt we used for this was quite simple: “can you create the old retro game pong?” Here is the result of this:

Opera Neon pipeline – You can see the process, check the files that Neon created, and access the app from here.
The resulting game – have fun!

The following image shows what we call “Neon’s Computer” – a virtual machine deployed by the AI agent to create the web app or webpage you wanted. Additionally, there are a set of steps that Neon went through to make it happen, they are at the bottom of the image and that’s what we call the “agenda”.

We also created a version of the popular minesweeper game: “Build a retro-style Minesweeper web app with a pixelated Windows 95 aesthetic but with more fun bright colors. Include a smiley-face reset button, timer, and mine counter. Keep the gameplay fast, minimal, and true to the original.”

Here is the pipeline.
And here is the minesweeper game.

One more gaming example of what Neon can make for you tasks us to the current gaming landscape, specifically to Helldivers 2. The popular game developed by Arrowhead has captivated many with the “stratagem” mechanics, and as an avid fan myself I decided to create something with Opera Neon to practice the memorization of these stratagems.

So, I took inspiration from the “Stratagem Hero” minigame that already exists within Helldivers 2 and decided to make it much more difficult – as you will see. This version of the Stratagem Hero minigame requires full-on memory, and it has been designed for those of you who fear no disruptors and can conjure your ship’s help regardless of the situation, helping spread managed democracy across the galaxy:

Here is the pipeline. This one is very interesting because the prompt is rather long, please take a look at it, and also because I attached a .CSV file with a list of all the stratagems. This showcases Neon’s ability to utilize the resources that you provide to it.
Finally, here is the minigame – best of luck! If you want to play it, let me give you a tip: the “clue” always represents the first arrowkeys that are part of the sequence. The more clues you get, the longer the Stratagem will be.

You can use Neon to browse with and for you

Opera Neon can Do things for you online – browsing tasks that it can perform with you, and for you. So, how does this work? Let’s look at an example:

Applying for a job

You can use Neon Do to make certain tasks much more efficient and easier, for example you can apply to jobs with your LinkedIn profile and a simple prompt to Neon. Here is an example:

What’s interesting to note here is that Opera Neon is doing the application by using your browsing context – which means that it uses your LinkedIn profile, to which you’re already logged into the browser, and doesn’t send that information anywhere as it is only used locally. Then it fills in the application form and completes the task for you. With this kind of assistance, you don’t have to spend so much time looking for different roles and the application process can be done quicker and easier.

Finding and ordering the product you want

Another example of what Opera Neon can do is finding and ordering things online for you. Let’s say you’re busy doing something important in your browser, and you remember you wanted to buy something that isn’t really worth going out for – like a bunch of socks. Instead of interrupting your workflow, you can simply delegate the task to Neon and it can do it for you:

One interesting thing to note is that the initial prompt says “Buy 12 pairs of white socks on Walmart…”, note the verb “to buy” in the sentence. Opera Neon interprets your intent, and when you ask it to buy something, it will attempt to do so. Additionally, it understands that you want to buy it on Walmart, and will head to that site. This is useful if you have your account logged-in and your payment method already selected, but if you don’t, it will stop and request that you introduce one to complete the checkout.

If you’ve been following along, you might remember when we unveiled Browser Operator earlier this year. If that’s the case, Opera Neon’s capability to Do browsing tasks for you will be something that you find familiar.

What does the arrival of Opera Neon and agentic browsing mean for the web?

Let’s think about Opera Neon in terms of the evolution of the web:

The web 1 was known as the “read-only web.” It was static and lacked any interactive content or design elements. For its time, it was a fantastic new way of accessing information.
Then, the web 2 came along and brought user participation into it, as well as new formats (like images and video). This web saw the rise of social media, blogs (like this one, hello!), and video streaming. It was a key moment, because out of nowhere you became an active part of the web – and it’s quite relevant today.
And more recently came the web 3, which is somewhat still growing. It refers to a web that’s decentralized, owned and controlled by the users, and built on blockchain technology.
And today, AI agents are bringing forward the next generation of the web: the agentic web, or as we like to call it, the web 4o. This refers to a web in which people and AI agents interact with each other, but also one in which AI agents interact among themselves.

Opera Neon is built for the agentic web, and what’s more, you’ll be able to actively build the web with Opera Neon – just as social platforms allowed you to become part of the “web 2” back in the day – and share what you create with others.

Help us make a difference by sharing your ideas and feedback. To do so, you could join our Discord server, or email us at neon@support.opera.com. We’re working hard throughout the summer to get Opera Neon ready as soon as possible, and we would really like to get your input in creating the future of the web together.