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Google ships Project Mariner web agent, beats OpenAI benchmark
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Google ships Project Mariner web agent, beats OpenAI benchmark

Google has launched Project Mariner, a browser-based AI agent capable of running 10 tabs simultaneously, scoring 83.5% on WebVoyager — the hardest public benchmark for autonomous web agents — and surpassing OpenAI's competing score. Sundar Pichai announced general availability at Cloud Next on April 22, 2026.

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"Google Just Shipped a Web Agent That Runs 10 Tabs at Once. It Beat OpenAI's Score."

"Google Just Shipped a Web Agent That Runs 10 Tabs at Once. It Beat OpenAI's Score."

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