Opera bets on artificial intelligence. This week the company to integrate generative AI capabilities into your web browser, starting with “Clip”, a feature that will be used by ChatGPT to create summaries of articles and web pages. When the tool is available to the public, you will see a new icon to the right of the address bar. Tapping it will open a sidebar where ChatGPT will provide a bulleted summary of the web page you are viewing.
Jan Standel, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Opera, , Shorten will start rolling out to users “very soon”. The company is working on other AI-powered features that it claims will “amplify” the Opera experience, but the company did not detail what those additions will entail.
Shorten’s announcement comes in the same week that Microsoft said it would add an “AI-powered co-pilot” to the browser. Among the things the company’s new Prometheus model can do is summarize web pages. Last week, Google also shared that it is working on , an artificial intelligence chatbot powered by its LaMDA platform. The timing of the announcements suggests that Opera and Microsoft see generative AI as a way to break Google’s grip on the browser market. However, it remains to be seen if people actually move away from Chrome as a result of those additions.
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