Opera integrates ChatGPT for web page summaries and other articles.

Opera announces the integration of ChatGPT into its browser. Initially, the goal is to provide summaries of web pages and articles.

Artificial intelligence has been on everyone’s lips for several months, several years. For a little less time, but with huge popularity, this is ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative conversational AI. Tech giants see endless possibilities here. The Opera browser, for example, has chosen to integrate this technology to make things easier for its users.

Opera announces the integration of ChatGPT into its browser

Opera is also betting on artificial intelligence. This weekend, the company shared plans to integrate generative AI capabilities into its browser, starting with the Shortcut feature, which will use ChatGPT to generate summaries of articles and web pages. When the tool becomes public, you will see a new icon to the right of the address bar. Clicking on it will open a sidebar where ChatGPT will offer a shortened version of the page you are currently visiting.

Initially, the goal is to offer summaries of web pages and articles.

Jan Standel, Opera’s vice president of marketing and communications, told The Verge that Shorten will be available to users “very soon”. The company is also working on other AI-powered features that will “broaden”Opera’s capabilities, but the company hasn’t gone into details about these new features.

Shorten’s announcement came the same week that Microsoft and its new version of Edge added an “AI stormtrooper”to the browser. Other features offered by this new Prometheus model from Redmond include a summary of web pages. We also learned last week that Google is working on Bard, a conversational AI based on the LaMDA platform. In any case, the timing of these announcements suggests that Opera and Microsoft are looking at generative AI as a way to bite off Google’s browser market share. That being said, no one knows if these additions will be enough to switch Chrome users to other software. Moreover, Mountain View will certainly offer similar functionality. To be continued!