Browser infrastructure and AI automation
Browserbase
Browserbase provides cloud browsers and automation tools that let developers and AI agents interact with websites without managing a browser fleet. Teams use the platform to retrieve documents, monitor prices and automate web workflows. Stagehand, its open-source SDK, combines code and natural-language browser control; Director turns plain-English requests into executable automation scripts for nontechnical users. Browserbase Agents provides a managed alternative: users describe a goal and invoke a hosted agent through an API, receiving structured results and execution recordings. Search and Fetch supply web context when a full browser session is unnecessary.
Founded in 2024 by CEO Paul Klein IV, Browserbase grew out of his experience operating headless browsers at Mux. Its engineering work places browser automation logic close to the pages it controls. Stagehand moves target management, frame tracking and Chrome DevTools Protocol dispatch into a browser extension, allowing the SDK to query browser state directly instead of relying on a remote copy. That shared core supports TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs with feature parity.
In June 2026, the company reported more than 35 million browser sessions per month, with teams including Ramp, Shopify and Lovable using its infrastructure. Browserbase announced a $40 million Series B led by Notable Capital in 2025, with participation from CRV and Kleiner Perkins.
2 talks
Newest first1 speaker at AIE
Affiliations reflect their AIE appearances, not necessarily current employment.
Start here
- The Web Browser Is All You Need
Start here to understand why headless browsers can bridge gaps left by missing APIs, with audience questions covering CAPTCHAs, robots.txt, and responsible automation.
Paul Klein IVAI Engineer World's Fair 2025
- Bringing agents onto the world wide web
Continue here for reinforcement-learning environments and coding-agent harness comparisons, plus an explanation of why improvised home deployments fall short of enterprise requirements.
Paul Klein IVAI Engineer World's Fair 2026
Messages from the stage
Choosing how agents interact with websites
The 2025 talk contrasts DOM-based, vision-based, and computer-use agents, grounding the comparison in browser-based MCP infrastructure and a development demonstration in Cursor.
Engineering beyond the model
The 2026 talk argues that missing engineering constrains browser agents more than model capability. It examines tools and infrastructure, including network-request interception, WebMCP, and Playwright CLI, alongside enterprise reliability and compliance.
Affiliations reflect each recorded session, not necessarily current employment.
Company sources · checked 2026-08-27
- Browserbase
- The Browser Blog
- Browserbase Launches "Director" to Automate the Web for Everyone; Announces $40M Series B
- Report: Browserbase Business Breakdown & Founding Story
- Paul Klein on collapsing the agent stack into one platform
- Introducing Stagehand v4: The SDK for browser agents.
- Introducing Browserbase Agents

