A new entrant in the browser market, Meteor, is positioning itself as an AI-native “agentic browser,” promising to handle online tasks with minimal user effort. The company’s LinkedIn post in association with the Y Combinator, says, “Google Chrome is a browser of the past.”
Instead of clicking through tabs, filling forms, and manually hunting for information, users can simply tell Meteor what they want like book a flight, find the cheapest hotel, schedule a meeting and it will work toward completing the task on its own.
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The two-person team behind it, University of Washington graduates Farhan Khan and Pranav Madhukar, built Meteor from scratch for AI-driven browsing rather than bolting AI features onto an existing framework. The company says, “Meteor is a browser that can do work on your behalf.”
By cutting down “tab overload” and leaning into automation, Meteor taps into the growing shift toward agentic computing where software doesn’t just sit there waiting for clicks, but actively works alongside its user. If this trend sticks, it could reshape the web itself, forcing sites to think about how they serve not just human visitors, but AI-powered agents too.
Its arrival also turns up the heat in the still-young AI-first browser race, a space now drawing interest from both everyday users and developers keen to make online work faster. Currently, in the market are: Comet, from Perplexity, offers deep page understanding and automation for everything from meeting scheduling to online purchases. Dia, from The Browser Company (the team behind Arc), takes a chat-first approach, treating tabs as a workspace users can talk to, complete with a custom “Skills” system. Opera Neon blends familiar browsing with AI modes: “Chat,” “Do,” and “Make.”
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Big tech is also participating in this initiative. Google Chrome is quietly layering in Gemini-powered summarization and “Project Mariner” automation, while Microsoft Edge is embedding Copilot for tasks like document handling and multi-tab actions though it’s had to patch some early security issues.
For developers, there’s a parallel movement of open-source frameworks like Browser Use, AgenticSeek, AgentGPT, and Skyvern, which allow AI agents to navigate, scrape, fill forms, and complete multi-step workflows without a human in the loop.
In an era where AI landscape is seeing huge investments from tech giants and other investors, such a scenario of AI browsers will be very common. At the same time, it will be interesting how far these browsers be beneficial to the society.