By Opera is upgrading its Opera Mini mobile web browser with advanced artificial intelligence. The business is integrating its Aria AI assistant into the Android version of Opera Mini, a low-cost, data-saving browser tool used by over a hundred million users worldwide.
Aria will assist Opera Mini users by answering queries, generating text or software code, producing graphics, summarizing webpages, and retrieving real-time information from the internet. Aria is powered by Composer, Opera’s proprietary AI engine that combines OpenAI and Google tools and models, including the Imagen 3 model for image creation.
“AI is rapidly becoming an integral part of the daily internet experience – bringing Aria to Opera Mini is a natural addition to our most downloaded browser,” said Opera executive vice president Jørgen Arnesen. “With the addition of our built-in AI, Aria, we’re excited to explore how AI can further enhance the feature set our users rely on every day.”
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Opera Mini is popular because it offers a web browser that does not consume a lot of bandwidth. AI helpers such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini typically require a large amount of energy and computing power. In many regions of the world, AI functions are only available to those with the most recent flagship phones, huge storage, or high-end subscriptions.
What Opera Mini is doing with Aria is an alternative, one tailored to a browser already developed for areas with unstable connections, slow speeds, and high data costs. If you own an Android device, simply update the Opera Mini browser and begin using Aria.
The release establishes an interesting precedent. As AI becomes increasingly common in digital products, developers must examine not only how to make AI smarter and more powerful, but also how to make AI more adaptable and accessible to people in a variety of situations. Aria’s integration to Opera Mini could serve as an example for developers looking to create an AI assistant that won’t take up all of your storage space or data allowance.
Opera has hinted that further new Mini features are on the way, but has not revealed what they will be. If the new capabilities integrate with the browser in the same way as Aria does, it might become a semi-independent road to AI adoption, distinct from its flashier counterparts.
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