Opera is Building ChatGPT Into Its Browser's Sidebar

"Opera's adding a ChatGPT-powered tool to its sidebar that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles," reports the Verge:"The feature, called 'shorten,' is part of the company's broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft's doing with Edge." The "shorten" feature isn't available to everyone just yet, though. Jan Standel, the vice president of marketing and communications at Opera, tells The Verge that it's going to "launch in browsers very soon." Opera's also working on other AI-powered features that "augment" the browsing experience and plans on adding "popular AI-generated content services to the sidebar," although it's not yet clear what this could entail. In the blog post Opera's EVP for PC Browsers and Gaming shared their belief that "with AI solutions springing up both for text, image, and audio generation and in countless other forms, we are at the brink of a new era of creativity on the Web." The post says the forthcoming AI integration follows their "track record of giving users direct access to the internet's most in-demand platforms, such as TikTok, Telegram, and WhatsApp." And Opera's co-CEO added that "Whether inventing browser tabs or providing our users with built-in access to generative AI tools, we always push the limits of what's possible on the web."

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