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  Opera adds AI chatbot to its iPhone browser By integrating AI into its desktop and mobile browsers , Opera joins other companies, most notably Microsoft, which offers the Bing AI through its Edge browser Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET iPhone owners who use Opera will be able to chat with AI the next time they fire up the browser. On Wednesday, Opera the company announced that its iPhone (and iPad) app is now home to Aria, its AI chatbot. Already available on the desktop and Android flavors of Opera, Aria works like a traditional generative AI bot to help you find information and create content. Aria taps into Opera's Composer architecture, which means it's capable of delivering the latest real-time results. For instance, ask it for the name of the current president of the US, and it will correctly answer Joe Biden. This contrasts with OpenAI's ChatGPT GPT-3.5, which can provide information only up to its last training date of September 2021 and therefore won't answ...

  Opera’s AI browser assistant is now available in its iOS app Opera announced today that its Aria AI assistant has made its way to iOS. The feature launched on desktop in June and stems from a partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Opera says Aria, now available on all major desktop and mobile platforms, has tallied over a million users on desktop and Android. Like Microsoft’s Bing Copilot and Google’s Search Generative Experience, Aria can answer questions and respond to context around active web pages. The assistant taps into OpenAI’s GPT API while using Opera’s Composer architecture for real-time web results. “As an expert in both web navigation and browser functions , Aria facilitates AI collaboration in tasks such as information retrieval, text or code generation, and product inquiries,” Opera’s Kseniia Sycheva wrote in the company’s announcement post today. Using the AI bot will require an Opera account, but nobody will be enrolled by default. “You have the autonomy to opt...