Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
Google quietly shut down Project Mariner, the Chrome-browsing AI agent it showcased at I/O 2025, after reportedly moving staffers off the team months earlier.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260506/p3#a260506p3" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Max Zeff / <a href="https://x.com/zeffmax">@zeffmax</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://x.com/zeffmax/status/2051824497242833234">Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025</a></b></span> — NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents. [image]</p>
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