Opera’s Browser Operator makes the first ever AI order of flowers

April 14th, 2025

This week we carried out the latest edition of the Opera Browser Days event where we performed the first live demo of Browser Operator in front of journalists and content creators from around the globe. Browser Operator is an AI agent that can get things done for you in the Opera Browser – it’s a feature that we previewed over a month ago and that’s still under development. It can do a lot of things for you on the web, like order and buy things online, book tickets and events, or even plan a whole trip for you.

We first previewed Browser Operator in March, at the last Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

To do this live demo in front of some of the world’s top tech journalists was equally exciting as it was nerve-racking – we’re talking about an AI feature still under development, what could possibly go wrong? So, first we had Browser Operator help us plan a cycling trip in Tuscany, as well as help figure out how to pack our bike for said trip. And then we took it up a notch: we had Browser Operator order flowers from a local flower shop near Lisbon for one of our guests.

This marks the first time that Opera’s Browser Operator orders something for the general public in an exciting live demo – and, perhaps, the first ever order of flowers with agentic AI.

Why is this live demo important?

When we were preparing for this event we wanted to showcase Browser Operator in the most relatable way possible that would provide an example of how agentic AI can make things happen in the real world. That’s when we decided to do something simple yet bold, and what a better way of doing it than ordering something to a member of our audience.

This live demo is important not only because it’s the first time that Browser Operator is shown unfiltered, but also because it marks the next step that we take into the future of web browsing. We aren’t new to the world of AI – we were the first to offer a native browser AI – and we even redesigned our browser to make it AI-centric. Ever since, we’ve been introducing more AI innovations into the browser through our AI Feature Drops program, and now we’re showing to the world, in a live stage, what AI agents can do in the browser with Browser Operator.

The first live demo of Opera’s Browser Operator

Up on the stage was our director of marketing technologies, Henrik Lexow –who was operating the Operator – accompanied by Joanna Czajka, Product Director at Opera, Monika Kurczyńska, AI R&D Lead, and Damian Trelka, VP engineering of the Opera desktop browser. Together, they walked us through the live demos of the day and explained to us what was going on the screen.

When the time came, Henrik gave Browser Operator the task to order yellow flowers to one of the members of our audience and deliver it to their hotel the very next day. He then stepped back to let Browser Operator get to work.

After a short period of time it had placed the flowers in the cart and filled in the relevant forms to place the order with the information that was previously provided in the prompt. Not everything was perfect though, real live demos always carry the risk to bring unexpected outcomes – we wanted to be bold, remember? Browser Operator stopped right before the very last click on the “checkout” button, and Henrik had to click it to finalize the order.

The flowers arrived!

The very next day we met up again with our lovely guests and we were delighted to see one of them come to us with a bunch of yellow flowers – the flowers that Browser Operator, and Henrik, ordered for him the day before.

We got the flowers back!

In an act of gratitude and appreciation, he presented the flowers to us and – suddenly – a bunch of yellow flowers became a symbol of the future of agentic AI. We rejoiced around the beauty of the flowers, and celebrated what is now a step forward in the evolution of AI in the Opera browser.

Showcasing the future of browsing

This live demo has already earned Browser Operator a reputation and its being considered as “groundbreaking” or as providing a little bit of a “sci-fi thrill” by the media. These labels are exciting, especially as we have presented, during the Opera Browser Days in Lisbon, what we believe is going to be the next generation of the internet as a whole: the Web 4o.

This is a web that is made both for humans and AI agents to interact with, meaning that websites are not only going to have a UI and UX only for humans, but also for AI agents to navigate. Currently, the web is thought and made for users like you and me to interact with, but soon we’ll have another player in the scene: AI agents.

So, the future of browsing is one in which humans continue to interact with the web as it happens nowadays, but in addition to that we will also have AI agents that can do things for us in this ecosystem. For example, we could have an AI agent like Browser Operator that can help us plan a trip, or order something online – like a bouquet of yellow flowers. And that’s why those flowers represent much more than just a very beautiful decoration, they’re the first step into the Web 4o.