We may not have an agreed definition of AI “Agent” yet, but a multitude of newly established businesses want to create a “agency” tools to automate various work on the internet. Such a business, Use of browserIt has attracted a ton of interest from developers and investors thanks to its solution that makes the websites more “readable” for AI agents.
The use of the browser told TechCrunch that it has garnered a significant $ 17 million seed funding round, led by Felicis Astasia Myers with the participation of Paul Graham, capital and partners Nexus Venture. Company funding has not been mentioned in the past.
The use of the browser, part of Y Combinator’s winter lot, has gained a reputation in recent months. The use of the use of Brower by the Chinese startfly effect at the viral manus tool has led to sensitization to new heights.
Magnus Müller and Gregor Zunic founded the use of the browser last year through the ETH Zurich Project House accelerator. Müller has worked for years on web branch tools and met with Zunic in 2024 while the couple was making the Master’s diplomas in data science. Together, according to Müller, they came with the idea of combining scraping with the science of data to ask a browser to perform a task.
Müller and Zunic built a demo use the browser in five weeks – and took off. Then the open.
The use of the browser essentially dissolves the buttons and details of a website in a more digestible form of “text” for agents. This helps agents to understand the various options and make decisions autonomously.
“Many agents are based on vision -based systems and trying to browse web pages through screenshot and [the] process, things break, “Müller said.” We convert [websites] to something agents can understand. This approach means that we can perform the same tasks again and again at cheaper costs. ”
There is an increasing number of AI companies that want to make their representatives interact with the sites more cute and Müller believes that the use of the browser can become a “fundamental mattress” that serves this need. He added that more than 20 companies in the current winter lot Y Combinator used the use of the browser for their own requirements.
“There are companies that come to us and say, ‘What can we do to make it easier for agents to browse our site? “, Müller said.” There are sites – for example, Linkedin – that change the way the site works all the time, so agents often fail on sites like them. “
According to Myers, Felicis is actively considering the AI agents for recent years, and the use of the browser has felt the right opportunity to develop the business portfolio there. He said that the company’s founding team-and its first open source approach-shattered the deal
“We believe that web AI agents are the next borders that really help with the automation of human work from end to end,” Myers told TechCrunch. “[W]EB AI agents are this dynamic bridge between static pre-educated models that focus mainly on the text on the ever-changing digital landscape. ”
