The news was announced via a blog post on the website of Opera, a small competitor to giants like Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari that offers a handful of features (RPV, blocker ads, etc.) focused on privacy.
The function, entitled Shorten, allows you to display in a sidebar text that summarizes in a few sentences the content of a page you are consulting.
Beginning of the YouTube widget. Skip the widget?
End of YouTube widget. Back to the top of the widget?
The launch of this feature is said to be without further details according to what we can read in the blog post. Other features that integrate artificial intelligence would also be coming soon, according to the site.
The browser is thus entering the AI race, which has intensified since the high-profile launch of the chatbot ChatGPT last November.
Microsoft went a step ahead by announcing a massive investment in this software from the fledgling OpenAI shoot a few weeks ago. The computer giant aims to integrate with many of its software, but most notably its own browser, Edge, and its search engine, Bing, which lags far behind Google in terms of popularity.
In what appears to be a response to these announcements, although the company denies this, Google has announced the launch of its own prototype chatbot called Bard.
Since launching to the general public, ChatGPT has been the fastest growing app in history with over 100 million active users as of January.