Browserbase: web browsing capabilities for AI agents and applications (www.browserbase.com)

Browserbase launched a platform (plus an open-source Stagehand framework) that gives AI agents and apps full, production-grade web browsing capability: run headless browsers at scale, connect via Chrome DevTools Protocol or common automation libraries (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or Stagehand), and control sessions with a Live View iframe for real-time human-in-the-loop oversight. The product is serverless and globally distributed (spin up thousands of browsers in milliseconds, each with 4 vCPUs), offers session recording, source-code and command logging, and native Node.js/Python SDKs and APIs for file uploads, custom extensions, and cookie/state persistence via a Contexts API. For the AI/ML community this lowers the operational barrier to giving models web grounding, tool use, and automation capabilities—useful for retrieval-augmented generation, autonomous agents, or large-scale scraping/interaction workflows—without managing fleets of browsers. Technical trade-offs and benefits are clear: low-latency global nodes, SOC-2 Type 1 and HIPAA compliance (with self-hosting), configurable logging for data sensitivity, and stealth features (managed captcha solving, residential proxies, fingerprint generation). Overall, Browserbase promises a turn-key infra layer that accelerates development, debugging (live debug URLs), and secure production deployment of web-enabled AI agents.