Web browsers with an assistant or agent built in that reads pages and does tasks on them for you. Named by Perplexity: Introducing Comet: browse at the speed of thought (Jul 9, 2025). Also called Agentic browsers, AI web browser, Browser agents.
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Hacker News stories, last 12 months133 stories, +111% on the 12 months before
133 stories, +111% on the 12 months before
Adoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months227 papers, +114% on the 12 months before
lmnr-ai/indexThe SOTA Open-Source Browser Agent for autonomously performing complex tasks on the web · Nov 30, 2024 1y1 year ago
Nov 30, 20241y1 year ago
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oxylabs/browser-agent-pyAI Browser Agent is an advanced Browser AI tool developed by Oxylabs AI Studio that automates real user browsing tasks using natural languag · Oct 13, 2025 11mo11 months ago
Oct 13, 202511mo11 months ago
1,563
webbrain-one/webbrainOpen-source AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox (monorepo) 🧠 · Apr 6, 2026 5mo5 months ago
AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.
Peak
Computer useAgents that operate a computer the way a person does, reading the screen and moving the mouse and keyboard.
Plateau
AI searchSearch that answers with a written summary and citations instead of ten blue links, and the deep research agents that followed.
Peak
History
Date
What changed
Sep 24, 2026
Tracking started: emerged February 2024, plateau, 3 other names recorded
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.
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