OSLO,
Norway, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Opera
Limited (NASDAQ: OPRA), one of the world's major browser developers
and a leading internet consumer brand, today announced that Opera's
native browser AI, has reached over 1,000,000 users since recently
becoming available to the users of the Opera Browser for Android
and Opera Browser for desktop.
Opera has moved swiftly to incorporate generative AI into its
products since the turn of the year. A collaboration with OpenAI
was announced at the end of February, with its popular ChatGPT
platform integrated, along with ChatSonic, into the browser's
sidebar within a month. Opera has also pioneered its own new AI
solutions, such as AI Prompts, which allow users to quickly
initiate conversations with generative AI services to shorten or
explain articles, generate tweets, or request relevant content
based on highlighted text.
The announcement of Aria in May marked a bold new step in the
company's rapid adoption of AI services. Based on Opera's own
"Composer" infrastructure, Aria connects to OpenAI's GPT technology
and is enhanced by additional capabilities such as live results
from the web. Easily expandable, Composer allows Aria to connect to
multiple AI models and in the future will expand by integrating
further capacities such as search and AI services powered by
Opera's key partners.
Aria and AI services in general are key to Opera's strategy
going forward, with the company's newly redesigned flagship desktop
browser a harbinger of things to come. Rebuilt from the ground up,
Opera One – in which Aria is natively integrated – heralds a
new era of AI-based browsing. Beyond creating space for existing
generative AI tools, the new design is also laying the groundwork
for the AI services Opera is planning to unveil in the near
future.
"As encouraging as the initial adoption of Aria has been, we are
equally pleased with the quality of the users' early engagement
with the AI tool," said co-CEO Lin
Song. "We are also seeing a lift in total time spent, with
increased searches and pageviews per session."
"While it is still early days, I am thrilled that our users are
loving the Aria experience as much as we do," he expanded. "I can't
wait for more of our users to try Aria for themselves as we upgrade
all of our Desktop user base to Opera One and bring our native
browser AI to Opera GX and Opera for iOS soon, making it available
on all major platforms."
Aria is now available in Opera One, Opera's completely
redesigned flagship browser, and in Opera for Android.
To use Aria – available in more than 180 countries worldwide,
including the EU – users should download Opera for Android or Opera
browser for desktop and log in using their Opera account. If they
do not have one, they can register here for free. Once done,
users simply open the browser, click the Aria icon in the main menu
(mobile) or in the sidebar (desktop) and start exploring the new
way of browsing, using AI for free.
About Opera
Opera is a web innovator building on more than 25 years of
innovation that started with the Opera web browser. While Opera is
leveraging its brand and engaged user base in order to grow and
develop new products and services for people who seek a better
internet experience, Opera's PC and mobile web browsers, content
discovery platform Opera News, and apps dedicated to gaming, Web3
and e-commerce are already the trusted choices of hundreds of
millions of active and engaged users. Opera is headquartered in
Oslo, Norway, and listed on the
NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the "OPRA" ticker symbol. Download and
access Opera's products and services from www.opera.com.
Learn more about Opera at www.investor.opera.com or on
Twitter @InvestorOpera.
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