Brown: AI will control browsers as well as humans within three months
“Cause this is not a year from now. This is like three months away. AI will be able to control any browser like as good of a human.”
Web browsers will become thinner and eventually embed directly into the OS
“I think the browser would be like more and more thin. I believe they would be like thinner and thinner, but they will disappear or they would be like just embedded in the OS eventually.”
Prince: Infrastructure regulating web bots will also regulate AI-connected browsers
“I think that that's, it, it'll probably be the same fundamental infrastructure that regulates how bots access the web, that ends up regulating how browsers access the web, and a browser that Takes data and then immediately feeds it back to an LLM might have mo…”
Chamath: Building a new web browser in 2025 is a stupid investment
“Look, I think building a browser is an absolutely stupid capital allocation decision. Just totally stupid and unjustifiable in 2025.”
Srinivas: Perplexity's primary strategic bet for the future is an AI browser
“The browser. That's the big bet we are making as far as the future of the company goes.”
Srinivas: AI browsers should be assistants combining navigation, search, and agents
“We think about it as an assistant rather than a complete autonomous agent, but one omnibox where you can navigate, you can ask informational queries, and you can give agentic tasks, and your AI with you on your new tab page, on your sidecar as an assistant on …”
Srinivas: An AI browser is much harder to copy than chat tools
“The browser is much harder to copy than, like yet another chat tool.”
Srinivas: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Both Build Their Own Browsers
“That said, I'm fully working with the assumption that OpenAI will also build its own browser. Anthropic will also try to build its own browser.”
Kilpatrick: Future browsers and IDEs will integrate live multimodal AI screen sharing
“If every browser in the world doesn't have this experience in the future, I'd be surprised if every IDE in the future doesn't have the ability to like, here, let me just show the model what's happening here, share my screen, talk to it live. Like, I think that…”
Morin: Spatial computing replaces web browsers with physical surfaces like walls
“The browser isn't a browser anymore. It's like the walls are, you're able to, like, change the walls of the physical space and the floor, and you're able to, like, do things like what we would call a web page in the internet today, but it's like the surface of…”
Casado: Eric Schmidt banned web browsers while CTO at Sun
“I remember when Eric Schmidt fucking banned the browser. Like, he was like, you know, this is Eric Schmidt, the CTO of Sun. I was like, you can't have a browser because people aren't going to work, right?”
Chowdhury: Softbrick delivers browser-based voice messaging without requiring an app
“We help companies to basically connect better with their customers through voice message and interactive UX without any app just on the phone browser.”
Evans: Google's post-cookie alternative assigns users to cohorts locally within browsers
“Google's proposal for replacement is that this happens in the browser, that the browser basically builds sort of
Algorithmically determined cohorts.
So there's like 10,015 thousand cohorts, and the browser works out which one of those you're in, but that neve…”
Carlson-Wee: Ethereum wallets function more like web browsers than bank accounts
“For me, I started seeing a big, like, breakthrough in my head was when I realized that Ethereum wallets were actually more like browsers than bank accounts.”
Sinofsky: Most enterprises have moved nearly all applications to browsers
“And so now what's happened is we've reached a point where most enterprises have moved all of their applications, except for very, very few, to the browser.”
Nanduri notes the web browser is roughly 8,000 days old
“The browser is about 8000 days old”