Gemini Browser (gemini.browserbase.com)

Gemini Browser is a lightweight demo that lets an AI agent actively browse and interact with the web — hit “Run” to watch it review a GitHub pull request, scan Hacker News for trending debates, play 2048, fetch live crypto prices, or handle any custom request you type. The experience is presented as an interactive web app and is explicitly “Powered by Browserbase & Stagehand,” indicating it’s built on browser-automation and agent orchestration tooling to let an LLM control page-level actions and queries. For the AI/ML community this is a compact example of agentic web browsing: instead of returning static answers, a model executes sequences of browser interactions across real sites, which is useful for automating developer workflows (code review, research), live data retrieval, and task-oriented agents. Key implications include streamlined prototyping for web-enabled agents and practical demonstrations of integration points (GitHub, HN, live price endpoints). At the same time it surfaces familiar challenges — reliability of web scraping, permission and security boundaries when automating accounts or sensitive pages, and the need for robust grounding to avoid hallucinated actions or unsafe behavior. Overall, Gemini Browser showcases how browser automation frameworks can make LLMs actionable on the open web while highlighting the technical and safety trade-offs to address.