Google pulls the plug on Project Mariner, the AI agent that browsed the web like a human

Google has shut down Project Mariner, its screenshot-based web-browsing AI agent.

The company says Mariner’s capabilities will be folded into Gemini products instead of continuing as a standalone tool.

The move suggests Google is shifting toward faster, cheaper agent designs that operate at the file or code level.

It looks more like a product reset than a full abandonment of the underlying technology.