内容来源：https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run

内容总结：

近日，Opera公司推出的AI浏览器Neon正式开放公测，以每月19.9美元（约合人民币144元）的订阅费进军竞争日趋激烈的AI浏览器市场。这款集成了三款AI工具（对话助手Chat、任务执行助手Do、网页工具生成助手Make）的浏览器，在实测中暴露出功能边界模糊、操作逻辑复杂、响应准确性不足等问题。

Neon浏览器的核心卖点是将三类AI功能整合于同一界面：搜索栏下方设有四种模式切换键，分别对应普通搜索、对话式AI、浏览器操控AI及网页工具生成AI。然而在实际使用中，用户常因难以判断具体任务该调用哪种AI而陷入困惑。例如当要求统计网页评论数量时，对话助手Chat会生成近400字冗长回复却无法准确识别实际存在的评论，而官方解释称此类任务本应由任务助手Do处理。

三款AI工具各存短板：Chat助手虽能即时回答查询，但回答冗长且存在虚构信息的风险；Do助手可代为完成预订课程、搜索商品等操作，但过程中无法中途修正指令，曾出现无视用户点击选择、自动添加不相关商品的情况；Make助手能快速生成简易网页工具（如西班牙语单词配对游戏），但成品体验较为粗糙。

值得注意的是，Neon的“功能卡片”设计本意是通过预制指令提升AI交互效率，但目前内容库多为团队自创模板，实用价值有限。更令人担忧的是其AI系统存在过度主动的风险——例如未经确认即执行任务，或出现反馈机制失灵等状况。Opera浏览器业务副总裁Krystian Kolondra坦言，Neon尚处于早期测试阶段，部分功能仍待完善。

在Chrome、Perplexity等竞争对手纷纷提供免费AI浏览服务的背景下，Neon作为付费产品尚未展现出足够差异化优势。目前其使用体验更接近于需要用户主动适应的“AI试验场”，而非真正理解用户需求的智能助手，这使其每月20美元的订阅定价面临市场考验。

中文翻译：

理解Opera Neon浏览器的关键在于认识到它并非简单内置了一个AI助手，而是同时容纳了三款AI工具并行运作。这种设计既是优势也是劣势——虽然无需切换界面就能使用各类AI功能，但用户常常会困惑于具体任务该交由哪个AI处理。

Opera Neon充分展现了AI浏览器尚存的混乱现状
这款实为三款AI工具捆绑、月费20美元的服务，折射出当前AI浏览器领域的迷思。

上个月，Opera开始将用户从其AI浏览器Neon的等候名单中逐步放出。此时入局的它正面临日益拥挤的AI浏览器市场：谷歌搭载Gemini的Chrome、Perplexity的Comet、The Browser Company的Dia等竞品层出不穷。与众不同的是，Opera为这款通常免费的产品设定了19.9美元的高昂月费。

Neon延续了Opera系列浏览器的经典布局，内置广告拦截器、VPN等标配功能，侧边栏可集成WhatsApp和Facebook Messenger等应用。其AI功能被置于起始页和新标签页的视觉中心，搜索栏下方设有四档切换开关：常规网页搜索、名为Chat的对话助手、掌控浏览器的智能代理Do，以及AI创作工具Make。（Opera称Neon基于OpenAI和谷歌的AI模型构建，但未具体说明各功能对应的模型。）

Chat是最直观的功能，这款内置AI助手的使用体验与当前主流对话机器人无异。它不仅能在搜索时调用，更常驻浏览器右上角随时待命。测试中它能快速响应简单查询，也能针对浏览页面回答问题（例如要求总结量子计算最新研究进展），但表现并不完美：回答内容过于冗长，让人不得不费力提炼重点。当我们要求总结五篇Verge最新文章的评论区时，它竟用近400字篇幅告知“没有评论”。

这次测试暴露了Chat并非总能正确读取网页内容，却始终表现得胸有成竹。某次它声称三篇Verge文章零评论，实际却存在四条评论。更奇怪的是，它转而开始臆测“科技新闻网站早期评论的常见内容”。

Opera浏览器业务执行副总裁Krystian Kolondra解释此为工具误用——当Opera团队测试时，Chat能准确显示文章顶部标注的评论数量。但总结评论需要展开网页评论区（这需手动点击），此类任务应交给更主动的AI代理Do，这个Chat的“表亲”能直接操控浏览器完成任务。

我们在Do上尝试了一系列任务：预订高强度间歇训练课程、预约50美元以下的附近水疗、寻找婴儿连体衣缝制图纸PDF。发现问题在于：Do运行时无法在同一窗口切换回Chat进行后续咨询，也无法中途修正指令。有次我们惊恐地看着它滚动浏览委托寻找的鲜花设计，明明点击了心仪款式，最终购物车却加入了诡异的花圈造型。另一次它断言某月演出门票售罄，而粗略检索就发现大量余票——面对这种盲目自信，实在难以建立信任。

与其他AI浏览器类似，使用Do的效率反而不如手动操作，不过它隐约展现了未来摆脱繁琐网页操作的可能性。目前使用Do仍无法完全放手：当遇到必须人工介入的障碍时，屏幕顶部的Do标签页会以易被忽略的红色闪烁提示。

除Chat和Do外，AI代理Make能为你快速创建小型网页工具。它在虚拟计算机环境中运行，可自动下载所需软件、脚本或图片（比如测试时使用的图片），避免占用个人电脑空间。我们要求制作西班牙语词汇记忆配对游戏，几分钟后就开始将“libro”与书本图片进行匹配。游戏虽粗糙，但关闭标签页即清除所有素材的便捷性令人称道。

Neon最后的卖点是“功能卡”，实则为预置指令模板，可应用于各AI代理。Opera宣称这些模板能增强AI交互体验。理论上能省去手动编写指令的麻烦，但目前看来重复使用指令集的需求并不迫切。类似应用商店的界面充斥着Neon团队的预设内容：既有将网站改写为尤达大师语气的噱头模板，也有新闻聚合器等实用工具。Opera期待随着用户增长能积累更多实用创作，但当前内容仍寥寥无几。

使用Neon的体验，时而像在指挥一个愣头青实习生，而非操作省时高效的智能科技。其AI系统经常在请求反馈后不等回应就继续执行任务。考虑到它能操控浏览器，这种“主动性”可能酿成大祸——比如向那些你只想匿名关注的职场人士狂发LinkedIn邀请。某次我们回复“一切完美，继续执行”后，Neon竟回答“很高兴您这么认为！”随即停止工作。Kolondra表示未来版本将改进反馈等待机制，当前该功能尚未启用。

Kolondra坦言Neon尚处于开发阶段：“总体而言，Opera Neon仍处于早期测试版，面向愿意参与产品共同开发的用户开放。”

但将这款本质上多处可免费获取的服务标价20美元月费，目前确实缺乏说服力——特别是当它更像需要用户迁就的AI浏览器，而非能主动适应人类的智能伙伴时。

英文来源：

The trick to understanding Opera’s Neon browser is recognizing that it’s not just a browser with an AI bot added to it, but a browser with three AI bots all living side by side. This is both a strength and a weakness, because while you don’t have to leave to do all the AI things you want, knowing where to go for which AI tasks can be really confusing.
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Neon is three AI tools dressed up as one, with a $20-per-month subscription attached.
Neon is three AI tools dressed up as one, with a $20-per-month subscription attached.
Opera began taking people off the waitlist for its AI browser, Neon, last month. It’s entering an increasingly crowded market of AI-powered browsers including Google’s Gemini-infused Chrome, Perplexity’s Comet, and The Browser Company’s Dia. Unlike many of these competitors, Opera is charging $19.90 a month, setting standards high for a product most people get for free.
Neon has a similar setup to other Opera browsers. It’s got features like a built-in ad blocker and VPN, and a sidebar you can power up with apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. The AI features are placed front and center on the home and new tab screens. Under the search bar is a toggle with four settings: a regular internet search; a chatbot called Chat; an agentic browser-controlling agent called Do; and an AI building agent called Make. (Opera says that Neon is built on AI models from OpenAI and Google, but it does not specify which model is used for which part of Neon.)
Chat is the most straightforward feature, an AI assistant built into the browser that will probably be familiar to users of any AI chatbot by now. It can be accessed at the start of a search query but also lives in the top-right corner of the browser for access at any time. Chat readily handled our quick research queries and could answer specific questions about the page we were browsing, like our request for a summary on the latest research in quantum computing. But it wasn’t perfect. Chat’s answers were so verbose it felt like we had to put in real work to get through them. When we asked Chat to tally and summarize comments from five of the most recent Verge stories, it replied with approximately 400 words to tell us there were none.
It was this exercise that showed us that Chat couldn’t always read the internet, but it gave the impression that it absolutely could. Another time it said there were zero comments on three Verge stories when there were actually four. We found it odd that Chat instead offered a guess about what “early comments on tech news sites” often include.
Opera’s executive vice president for browsers, Krystian Kolondra, said the bot failed because we’d chosen the wrong tool. Chat successfully noted the number of comments listed on top of the Verge articles when Opera tried it, Kolondra said. Summarizing comments, however, requires expanding the comments section on the webpage, which needs a click. Instead, we should have sent our queries to the AI agent Do, Chat’s more active cousin that takes over the browser and completes tasks for you.
We tried out Do on a grab-bag of tasks: book a CrossFit class, reserve a massage for under $50 at a nearby spa, and find PDFs of baby romper sewing patterns. While Do worked, we couldn’t switch back to Chat within the same window if we wanted to ask follow-up questions about the task at hand. There’s also no way to course-correct Do while it’s in action. We watched in horror as the bot scrolled past perfectly nice floral arrangements we’d tasked it with finding for a friend only to add a monstrous funerary wreath to our basket, even as we clicked on the better options. Another time, Do declared that there were no theater tickets for a January show when a cursory check showed many. It’s hard to trust something after such unflinching but misplaced confidence.
As with other AI browsers, doing things with Do was also slower than doing it ourselves, though it hinted at what outsourcing the general mundanity of web surfing could look like. And using Do doesn’t mean you can completely check out just yet. Sometimes it encountered obstacles that only a human can handle. When it did, the Do tab at the top of the screen flashed in an easily missed shade of red letting us know we needed to step in and help the bot on its way.
In addition to Chat and Do, there’s also the AI agent Make, which can, well, make little web tools for you. Make exists in a virtual computer where it downloads the needed software, scripts, or, in our case, pictures for your creation without cluttering up your personal computer. We asked for a simple memory matching game with introductory Spanish vocabulary. It worked, and within a few minutes we were matching the word “libro” to a picture of a book. The game was clunky, but it was convenient to close the tab and know that all the book pictures disappeared along with it.
The final selling point for Opera’s Neon is Cards, effectively prewritten prompts that can be used on any of the AI agents that Opera says act like “power-ups” for your AI interactions. Cards could, in theory, save us from writing out a prompt, but at the moment, it’s hard to see ourselves needing the option to reuse a set of instructions. The app store-like interface is largely filled with content from the Neon team ranging from gimmicky prompts that rewrite sites as if spoken by Yoda to more serious prompts for news aggregators. Opera’s hope is that the platform will fill up with useful user creations as more people use the platform, but there is little there today.
At times, using Neon felt a bit like working with a hapless intern we’d never asked for rather than a sophisticated, timesaving piece of technology. Often, one of its AI systems would ask for feedback, then just launch into a task without waiting for a response. Given its ability to use the browser, it’s all too easy to imagine where this proactivity could go very wrong, such as sending out a load of LinkedIn requests to people you had just wanted to anonymously stalk in a professional capacity. One time, we replied letting it know everything looked great and to go ahead, and Neon said “I’m glad you think so!” and immediately stopped working. Kolondra told us Neon will pause for requested feedback in the future, but that the feature is disabled as it’s not ready yet.
Kolondra acknowledged that Neon is a work in progress right now. “In general, Opera Neon is in an early access release stage, and made available for people who want to participate in the journey of developing this product,” Kolondra told The Verge.
But Neon is also a paid subscription product, asking for $20 per month, for something that is largely available for free elsewhere. Right now, that’s a tough sell — especially with Neon feeling more like an AI browser we need to adapt to than a browser that’s smart enough to adapt to us.