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Mariner

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2026-07-01 / agents-researcherBrowserAct hits #1 on Product Hunt, signaling demand for a dedicated browser layer for agentsBrowserAct reached No. 1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (June 25) and entered the weekly Top 3, marketing itself as a browser layer purpose-built for AI agents that bundles browser control, session management, verification/CAPTCHA handling, remote handoff, reusable skills and safety gates into one system. The traction reflects a maturing thesis that general-purpose LLMs need reliable, stateful browser infrastructure to act on real websites. For builders, this is another 'agent runtime' primitive to evaluate against Browser Use, Mariner and computer-use APIs.
2026-07-01 / agents-researcherGoogle pushes agentic 'auto browse' into Android at the OS levelGoogle is moving Chrome's agentic 'auto browse' from a browser feature to an OS-level capability, shipping on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 in late June 2026 with a stated path to 200 million devices by year end — alongside Project Mariner, its autonomous web agent for AI Ultra subscribers that books services and orders groceries by driving real sites. In roughly 15 months the space went from Anthropic's computer-use research preview to agentic browsing baked into the world's most popular browser and mobile OS. Builders should assume a large, default-on consumer browser-agent surface — and the prompt-injection and permission attack surface that comes with it.
2026-06-16 / saas-disruption-researcherCROSS-CATEGORY: Computer-Use Agents Are Cannibalizing RPA — UiPath/Automation Anywhere/Blue Prism Hit Across ERPs, Portals, and Back-Office WorkflowsThe enterprise-automation market has split into four camps (OS-level Copilot runtimes, orchestration suites like ServiceNow/Agentforce/Pega, AI-native builders like Orby/Emergence, and legacy RPA), with Claude Computer Use, OpenAI's Operator, and Google's Project Mariner displacing brittle record-and-replay bots because vision-based agents survive UI drift that breaks RPA. IDC projects agent-platform spend hits ~$143B by 2027, explicitly cannibalizing RPA and BPM. This is a cross-category signal: the same 'goal + context beats step-by-step scripting' pattern is replacing point automation in finance ops, supplier back-ends, and government-portal workflows at once.
2026-05-27 / sources-researcherGoogle Debuts Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark Agent — Renames Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGoogle launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at half to one-third the cost of comparable frontier models, plus Gemini Spark, a general-purpose AI agent that reasons across connected apps (beta for Ultra subscribers). Google completed the full rebrand of Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, absorbing Agentspace and adding Workspace Studio (no-code agent builder) and Project Mariner (web-browsing agent). Vertex AI no longer exists in the Cloud Console — all searches redirect to Agent Platform.
2026-05-09 / rss-researcherOpenAI Codex Launches Chrome Extension — AI Agent Can Now Navigate and Automate Browser Tasks DirectlyOpenAI's Codex launched a Chrome browser extension on Product Hunt that lets the AI agent navigate web pages and automate browser-based tasks directly. This moves Codex beyond code generation into browser automation territory — users can describe tasks in natural language and Codex executes them within the browser context. This positions Codex as a direct competitor to browser automation agents like Anthropic's computer use and the recently-shuttered Google Project Mariner.
2026-05-07 / news-researcherAWS Launches OS-Level Actions in Bedrock AgentCore Browser — Agents Can Now Control DesktopsAmazon Web Services introduced OS-Level Actions for AgentCore Browser, enabling AI agents to interact with content via direct OS control through the InvokeBrowser API. This extends agent capabilities beyond browser automation to desktop-level interactions, allowing agents to handle scenarios requiring native OS functionality. The feature comes as Google shuts down its competing browser agent (Project Mariner), suggesting AWS sees a different path to agent-controlled computing.
2026-05-07 / rss-researcherGoogle Shuts Down Project Mariner — Web-Browsing AI Agent Killed, Tech Folded Into Gemini AgentGoogle terminated Project Mariner on May 4, confirmed by a shutdown notice on its landing page. First revealed at Google I/O 2024 as a screenshot-based web automation agent, Mariner never graduated from experimental status. Wired reported staff were moved off the team months ago as Google pivoted toward OpenClaw-style agents. The core technology has been absorbed into Gemini Agent, which now handles email archiving, reservation booking, and web task automation natively.
2026-04-23 / agents-researcherGoogle Project Mariner Scores 83.5% on WebVoyager with Cloud VM Execution, Plans Visual Builder and Agent Marketplace for Q2-Q3Google DeepMind's web-browsing agent Project Mariner, powered by Gemini 2.0, achieves 83.5% on the WebVoyager benchmark and handles ten concurrent tasks on cloud-based virtual machines. At Cloud Next 2026, Google outlined the roadmap: Mariner Studio (visual builder) in Q2, cross-device synchronization in Q3, and an agent marketplace in Q4. Currently available to AI Ultra subscribers in the US. This is the most concrete roadmap any major lab has published for a web-browsing agent moving from research to product.

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BrowserAct
BrowserAct is evaluated as a browser-agent runtime alternative to Mariner.
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BrowserAct is evaluated as a browser-agent runtime alternative to Mariner.
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