Jarvis, Google’s web browsing AI, is now officially known as Project Mariner

Earlier today, Google made its debut Gemini 2.0. The company says its new machine learning model will not only improve it Current products and services. It will also provide completely new experiences. To that point, Google has previewed Mariner Projectan AI agent that can navigate within a web browser. Mariner is an experimental extension for Chrome and is currently available to select Trusted Testers.

As you can see from the video shared by Google, Mariner Presentation is a tool that can automate some routine tasks. In the demo, Mariner helps Google’s Jacqueline Konzelman find contact information for four third-party companies.

There’s clearly more work for Google to do before the software is ready for general use. Note that Kunzelman was very specific when he prompted Mariner, instructing the client to “memorize” and “remember” parts of her instructions. It also takes Mariner approximately 12 minutes to complete the task assigned to him.

“As a search prototype, it is able to understand and reason about information on your browser screen, including pixels and web elements like text, code, images, and forms,” Google says of Mariner.

If Project Mariner sounds familiar, that’s because it is Information I reported in October that Google was working on something called Jarvis Project. The post described it as a “computer-based agent” designed by Google to help with tasks like booking flights. In November, an early version of Jarvis was briefly available on the Internet Chrome Web Market. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Jarvis and Mariner are the same project.

Confirmation of Mariner’s existence comes after Anthropic introduced a similar but more extensive featurette for it Claude IWhich the company says can “use a wide range of standard tools and software designed for people.” This tool is currently available in public beta.