Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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Paul Klein IV, Founder & CEO of Browserbase, breaks down what Browserbase actually is (“a base for your browsers”) and why running secure, production-grade browsers in the cloud is far harder than it sounds. He explains how Browserbase powers everything from Perplexity and Vercel to a 50-year-old dairy company automating gas-price lookups, and even government rebate workflows.

Topics covered:

• Why AI systems need real browser access to take meaningful actions
• Why traditional headless browsers and old-school RPA can’t meet AI’s needs
• How Stagehand (Browserbase’s open-source framework) lets developers bring their own models
• Why browser automation breaks and how AI-driven, self-healing automation fixes that
• Which models currently perform best for “computer use”
• The coming wave of enterprise adoption as computer-use models rapidly improve
• How Browserbase thinks about security, observability, and running browsers safely
• Why unlocking the web is one of the next major frontiers for agentic AI

Paul also shares predictions for 2026, insights from meeting CIOs, and why enterprises are far more optimistic about AI than expected.