Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent, to Google's AI Ultra plan, and brings its capabilities to the Gemini API and Vertex AI (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-rolls-out-project-mariner-its-web-browsing-ai-agent/
http://www.techmeme.com/250520/p36#a250520p36
TechCrunch · Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent | TechCrunchGoogle is rolling out Project Mariner, an AI agent born out of Google DeepMind that browses and uses websites on a user's behalf.
@Techmeme Completely missing from the article, does it work? Can people actually use this reliably? Did any reporter try even the examples in the article of "purchase tickets to a baseball game or buy groceries"? All of these agents so far have had substantial reliability and usefulness issues, so some skepticism would be appropriate.