The Agentic Browser Summit
The Agentic Browser Summit is our inaugural collective of keynotes, discussions, and industry perspectives taking on the most ambitious end-game of software with a goal to improve human life. This is Day 1 of this movement, and we at Hyperspace welcome everyone tinkering, thinking about, or building components for it to come together. If you want to present something remarkable as well, please DM me on X (@varun_mathur).
PS: I apologize for re-schedule of this event to July 15th (confirmed date) and the disruption in travel plans it might have caused for some. Given the scale of interest in this, we are determined to put on an unforgettable evening of delightful product demos and discussion. We also have some exclusive and priority access and rewards planned for those who RSVP-ed early. - Varun
A backstory on why we at Hyperspace have been building it:
the idea of an agentic browser pokes at the idea of how do the agents rank and utilize each other in order to best serve users. we believe this compounds user utility over time. Search engines have built-in network effects: more people use the web, the smarter they (ought to) become with more credible websites “voting” for webpages in an uber-democratic real-time process. this compounds and compresses society’s knowledge.
is it true with single-shot AI answer engines which are wrapping search results ? you ask a question, get generated answer and move on - how does that feedback into making the underlying system a lot smarter over time ? what has it learnt about that page compared to other pages which fundamentally improves the experience for the Nth user ?
for example - consider the “rental car” problem.
1) enter that term in a search engine like Google, what do you get ? list of top car rental websites
2) enter it in an answer engine, what do you get ? you get English-ized version of (1) above. great, now you know the names of the biggest rental car companies in the US. as a user, you are basically back at (1) above.
what did you as a user really want ? you wanted the best rental car options for you and also things happening leading to a booking: based on your needs and preferences. so right answer for you would have been a series of actions:
- a question: which city do you need this in and approximately when ? what kind of cars do you like to drive ?
- found you these Tesla Model 3 rentals, available on these dates for this price, and booking available on these few websites and apps,
- and i will re-run this analysis every 30 mts for next 2 weeks until your travel to see if can find you a better price and negotiate behind the scenes
this, is the next society productivity unlock as this is the flow the user would have been the MOST happiest with. that is the 5 star user experience. and that’s only going to happen in the most seamless way in a software system custom-designed for this purpose, an agentic browser, which leverages AI agents (nameless processes recursively spanning and orchestrating themselves using all types of infrastructure necessary in order to satisfy the user need).
where a search engine and an answer engine “gives up” after showing rudimentary options, the agentic browser is a relentless beast of a machine which keeps on running and processing, and orchestrating many agents together into getting the job done for the user. during this time, it is learning and compounding on the nature of agents and their interactions themselves’. it is not just a standalone software, but a network, and it requires a different DNA altogether.
this is the world we are building, and it spans many components: from a revolutionary new user interface, to insanely powerful on-device capabilities, to plugging into the world’s largest distributed data and compute cluster, and using the right decentralized protocols for agent-to-agent transactions and payments to build trust in the system.
this is going to be the largest new economy built from scratch this decade.