Definition
An agentic browser is a web browser (often Chromium-based) designed so AI agents can click, type, and navigate — frequently inside the user’s logged-in sessions — to complete multi-step workflows rather than only chat about page content.
Key Points
- 2025 consumer AI-browser wave cooled; 2026 focus shifted to automation / knowledge work (2026-08-02-techcrunch-polar-5-7m-seed)
- Players: polar-browser, perplexity Comet, Browser Use, OpenAI/Anthropic computer-use, others
- Security/privacy: logged-in session control and guardrails are central risks