Opera on Tuesday (May 28) announced a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate AI-based features into its Aria AI browser. As part of the collaboration, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot built into the Opera One browser will now feature Gemini, Google's Large Language Model (LLM), and will have image generation capabilities and functionality from text to audio, both arriving as part of the collaboration. part of the new AI Feature Drops program on the platform.
Google Cloud-Opera collaboration
In a blog post, Opera announced that its Aria AI browser, powered by its multi-LLM Composer AI engine, will benefit from Gemini integration. This move will provide Opera One browser users with “the most up-to-date information, with high performance,” according to the company.
The new features will be available initially as part of AI Feature Drops, a new program that allows early adopters to try experimental features before they are released to the public. Opera One Developer Beta now has image generation capabilities powered by Imagen 2, Google's text-to-image rendering model in Vertex AI.
Announcing the collaboration, Eva Fors, General Manager of Google Cloud Nordic Region, said: “We are delighted to elevate our long-standing cooperation with Opera by empowering their AI innovation within the browser space. We believe that the The future of AI will be open, so we're offering access to Google's best-in-class infrastructure, AI products, platforms and foundational models to empower organizations to chart their path with generative AI.”
About Aria Browser AI
Opera's AI chatbot is available on desktop as well as Android and iOS platforms, providing quick responses to queries and content generation features with a real-time web connection. It has tools like to compose which generates content and refine which can be used to modify it.
According to Opera, users can simply highlight a specific piece of text in the browser, and Aria can provide an explanation of it, based on data currently available on the web, as well as the publicly available dataset on which it was trained . Aria is accessible in all browsers including Opera One and Opera GX.
