Strawberry Leaves Beta With Version 1.0 of Its Swedish AI Browser, Letting Teams Share Trained AI Companions

Companions can also work on a schedule or start when a new email or sales lead arrives. For larger jobs, such as researching 200 companies, a companion can divide the work among several sub‑agents that run in parallel.

Version 1.0 adds a way to capture video meetings on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet directly from a user's computer. Because the recording happens locally, no separate bot has to join the call. Strawberry then turns the conversation into notes and follow‑up tasks.

Giving AI assistants access to work accounts raises questions about what they can do without human oversight. Strawberry says companions pause for approval before sending emails, publishing posts or changing records. Passwords remain in the user's browser, and companies can keep customer data within the EU.

Its changelog also lists safety countdowns before risky actions, which were added in March 2026.

The browser is available for macOS and Windows with a free plan. Paid subscriptions start at $20 a month. Strawberry has not disclosed active users, paying customers or revenue.

Strawberry opened its beta to 10,000 people who had signed up in advance in October 2025. Downloads opened to everyone in mid‑February 2026. At that stage the company said its own tests showed the browser outperforming Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas in practical workflows, and that it scored around 78 percent on the GAIA agent benchmark. Those results were the company's own and were not independently verified.

Strawberry was founded by Maddock, chief operating officer Sebastian Thunman and chief technology officer Arian Hanifi. The 12‑person startup raised $6 million in October 2025 in a round co‑led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures. The founders of Lovable, Supabase and Hugging Face also invested.

According to the Retail Technology Innovation Hub, Strawberry plans to follow the launch with a Series A round, and it has said it plans to expand across Europe and the US. The company has not announced a date or size for a new round.

The release puts Strawberry in a crowded market. Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas are AI browsers aimed at a broad audience, and Meta's Muse is a personal AI agent. Strawberry sits between general‑purpose chatbots and personal assistants, and its companions work across the browser‑based services employees already use.

Earlier this week, The Browser Company set a December 22 shutdown date for Arc and pointed users to its AI browser Dia, another sign of how much effort is going into browsers with built‑in AI.