- Opera has added its AI assistant Aria to Opera Mini Browser to Android
- Users can access information in real time, summarize text and generate images in the lightweight Android browser
- The Opera Mini version of Aria is optimized for low data usage and older devices
Opera provides a larger AI upgrade to its Opera Mini Mobile Web Browser. The company is embedding its Aria AI assistant in the Android version of the Opera Mini, whose low cost, data-saving approach to browsing is used by more than a hundred millions of people globally.
Aria will help opera-mini users by answering questions, generating text or software code, creating images, summarizing web pages and pulling real-time info from the Internet. Aria is dependent on the composer, Opera’s own AI engine, sewing tools and models from both Openai and Google, including creating images with Google’s Image 3 model.
“AI is quickly becoming an integral part of the daily internet experience-to bring Aria to the Opera Mini is a natural addition to our most downloaded browser,” Opera Executive Vice President Jørgen Arnesen explained in a statement. “With the addition of our built -in AI, Aria, we are happy to explore how AI can improve the function that our users further trust every day.”
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The Opera Mini is popular because it can provide a web browser that does not use too much bandwidth. AI assistants like Chatgpt or Google Gemini tend to rely on a significant amount of energy and computing power. In many parts of the world, AI features are only available to people with the latest flagship phones, massive storage or expensive subscriptions.
What the Opera Mini is doing with Aria offers an alternative, one built to fit a browser already designed for places with unreliable connections, slow speeds and high data costs. If you have an Android device, simply update the Opera Mini browser and start using Aria.
The release sets an interesting precedent. As AI becomes a staple in digital tools, developers must not only consider how to make AI smarter and more powerful, but also more flexible and accessible to people in different circumstances. The Opera Mini’s addition of Aria may end up becoming the example that developers refer to when creating an AI assistant who does not eat all your storage space or data budget.
Opera has teased that other new mini features are in pipeline, though it has not said exactly what they want to be. If the new features are mixed with the browser like Aria, it can end up as a semi-independent path towards AI-Adoption, a very different from its flashers.
