Google quietly shuts down Project Mariner, its AI agent that navigated Chrome and completed tasks on a user's behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025
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]
Here's the landing page for Project Mariner now: https://labs.google.com/... Google is sunsetting one of its biggest AI products from IO 2025 just weeks before IO 2026. Google is facing pressure to release more capable AI agents to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. And here's my
Be google > show us AI browsing agents in June 2025 > allow a few prompts on the ultra plan > shut down the preview as Codex Claude co work take over browser agents > what?