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title: "Browser Use - browser agents — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/browser_use
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
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# Browser Use - browser agents (🤖 Agents)

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Browser Use - browser agents is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 3 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources.

Browser Use (open-source library and company) and the category of agents that operate the browser on their own.

First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 17 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

- **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources
- **Hype score:** 2.8 / 100 · +1.3 in 1 day · +0.6 in 7 days
- **In hype since:** not in hype now
- **Peak, 30 days:** 22.1 on Sep 17, 2026
- **Category:** 🤖 Agents
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Official site:** [browser-use.com](https://browser-use.com)
- **Sources above normal:** 0 of 26 scoring it (0 independent families)
- **Stories in 7 days:** 59
- **Share of voice:** 0.1% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

## Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

| Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Reddit | posts | 6 | 3 | 1.8× | no | 54% |
| PyPI (downloads) | downloads | 281,221 | 263,901 | 1.1× | no | 33% |
| DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 3 | 1 | 2× | no | 13% |
| Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |

## Stories behind it

1. [browser-use/video-use: Edit videos with coding agents](https://github.com/browser-use/video-use) — GitHub Trending (browser-use) · score 26,333
2. [JEV almost dead: CLM vs JEV](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wouby6/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 24 · score 410 · 180 comments
3. [One browser extension permission just hijacked five different AI browser agents](https://dev.to/humanbound_ai/one-browser-extension-permission-just-hijacked-five-different-ai-browser-agents-39f5) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#agents) · Sep 22 · score 6 · 0 comments
4. [Merging PRs in Origin with Grok Bot](https://forum.cursor.com/t/merging-prs-in-origin-with-grok-bot/172592) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 22 · score 1 · 1 comment
5. [Show HN: Ego-jev – 0.4s typed decisions for browser agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803834) — Hacker News (github.com) · Sep 22 · score 1 · 0 comments
6. [Jev-kit: all the Jev stuff I've wired into Claude Code, now in one repo \(guard hook, sub-agent sizing, file search, browser agent\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wol4y5/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Sep 23 · score 48 · 18 comments
7. [A security policy is part of the product boundary](https://dev.to/_firelinks/a-security-policy-is-part-of-the-product-boundary-112c) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#security) · Sep 27 · score 2 · 1 comment
8. ["First Principles" thinking about the future of agent use on computers](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wr8hte/) — Reddit (r/AI\_Agents) · Sep 27 · score 4 · 20 comments
9. [I built a browser agent where every step is a \~150ms decision instead of an LLM call \(open source, zero deps\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wmtkds/) — Reddit (r/AI\_Agents) · Sep 21 · score 3 · 16 comments
10. [MaskAgent : A Privacy-First Browser Agent That Protects Your Data Before AI Sees It](https://dev.to/bhuvaneshm_dev/maskagent-a-privacy-first-browser-agent-that-protects-your-data-before-ai-sees-it-15fg) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 0 comments
11. [NEV Jev AI Voice Browser Agent is WILD!](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nev-jev-ai-voice-browser-agent-is-wild/id1851256047?i=1000791008145&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (AI News Today \| Julian Goldie Podcast) · Sep 21
12. [Jev Ultrafast — open-source browser agent that maps page elements to typed actions](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jev-ultrafast-open-source-browser-agent-that-maps-page/id1784690394?i=1000791993107&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (AI Agents: Top Trend of 2026 - by AIAgentStore.ai) · Sep 28

## Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 54 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 70% of its stories
- [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 28% of its stories
- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 19% of its stories
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 15% of its stories
- [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 15% of its stories
- [Identity & auth](https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth.md) — 5.6% of its stories

Payment rails its stories name:

- [PSPs & fintechs](https://abovethefog.app/themes/psp_fintech.md) — 2 stories

## Related topics

- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Related to:** [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md), [Perplexity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/perplexity.md)
- **Mentioned with:** [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) (12 stories), [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md) (5 stories), [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md) (3 stories), [TypeSafe AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/typesafe_ai.md) (3 stories)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 3.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 13.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 2.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 5.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 22.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 1.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |

[Open Browser Use - browser agents in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=browser_use)

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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