March 23, 2025 News
Browser Use Raises $17M to Help AI Agents Navigate Websites More Effectively
Browser Use, a startup making websites more accessible to AI agents, has secured $17 million in seed funding led by Felicis. The company's technology breaks down website elements into a text-like format that AI agents can better understand, enabling more reliable automation of web-based tasks without relying on vision-based systems that frequently break.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): By creating infrastructure that makes websites more navigable for AI systems, Browser Use reduces the dependency on human assistance and enables more autonomous web-based agent behaviors, incrementally advancing AI systems' ability to act independently in human-designed digital environments.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The development of tools that help AI agents reliably navigate complex websites accelerates the timeline for capable autonomous AI systems by removing a significant bottleneck in agent development, namely the ability to interact with existing digital infrastructure.
AGI Progress (+0.05%): Browser Use addresses a key limitation in current AI systems—the inability to reliably interact with the digital world as humans do—providing a foundation for more generally capable AI systems that can operate effectively across various websites and applications.
AGI Date (-2 days): By making AI-website interactions more reliable and less costly, Browser Use eliminates a significant technical barrier to developing autonomous AI agents, potentially accelerating the development of more generally capable AI systems that can operate in diverse digital environments.