Ummm… try closing some tabs, or spend $360/year on a browser?
Each browser instance is powered by “16 vCPUs” running on dual Intel Xeon processors that clock up to 4GHz, Nvidia GPUs, and 16GB of RAM. This cloud implementation is said to let you load anywhere from “50+” to “hundreds of tabs without it stalling, freezing, and slowing down your computer,” while also speeding up renders for graphics-intensive workloads, like Figma.
Someone hit the right combination of keywords to soak the capital markets which are stunningly well tuned by the invisible hand of the market to allocate resources where they are most useful to everyone.
It’s also pretty hilarious that they think/claim this is a mass market product . There may well be an enterprise/academia niche for this sort of thing, I don’t know, in that they’re basically pitching it as a remote VM. But the idea that the mainstream browser market, which since its very beginning has been driven by “free and pre-installed wins”, is going to adopt a $30 subscription in any meaningful volume is absolutely insane. It won’t adopt a $1 subscription unless they somehow persuade Apple to make it mandatory on iDevices.
The only thing wrong with this is the price point. There are plenty of competing services already, all offering it for less. I know their uniqueness is the specs but that is surely a niche of a niche.
Didn’t the Opera browser do this for its mobile browser a few years back, so you’d get a decent experience on underpowered phones? Opera was definitely not charging $30 a month.