Bringing agents onto the world wide web — Paul Klein IV, Browserbase
Web agents face a model capabilities overhang as infrastructure, not models, is now the bottleneck
“there's a huge model capabilities overhang in this category specifically, and you all here can hopefully solve it”
Browserbase founder Paul Klein argues that web/browser agents represent the largest category of AI agents but remain underdeployed despite capable models. He contends the bottleneck has shifted from model quality to infrastructure challenges — broken browser environments, context-inefficient web pages, and anti-automation blockers. The talk frames this as a solvable engineering problem, not a model capability gap.