Opera adds AI chatbot to its iPhone browser

 

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

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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 answer questions about current events.