Opera has changed to Opera One: A revolution begins in the browser world

Opera has released Opera One, the new version of the browser that comes with an artificial intelligence-supported chatbot called Aria. Just like the Bing chatbot in Microsoft Edge, Opera’s artificial intelligence assistant resides in the browser’s sidebar where you can use real-time information to answer questions, generate text or code, brainstorm ideas, and more.

There’s Opera One now

The built-in chatbot is powered by Opera’s Composer AI engine and links to OpenAI’s GPT model. To use the tool, you need to sign up for an Opera account if you don’t have an Opera account yet. After this process is complete, you can click on the Aria icon on the left side of the screen to start chatting. Although Opera first started testing the revamped version of the browser in May, it is now available to anyone who downloads it. Existing Opera browser users will also get Opera One with the new update (Version 100.0).

Artificial intelligence scanners are coming

Aria and Opera One are essentially very similar to Bing in Edge, but with some strong differences. For example, you do not need to open the sidebar to use Aria. Instead, you can open a command line-like overlay (CTRL + /) where you can quickly type a question or prompt.

While Aria can do almost everything the Bing chatbot can do, it can’t compete with the Edge assistant. Aria doesn’t have the same kind of menu system that lets you quickly choose a speaking style when asking questions, and it also doesn’t offer one-click options that let you choose the tone, format, and length of the text you want to compose. Instead, it is necessary to make the tone selections manually. On the other hand, we can say that the era of browsers integrated with artificial intelligence has begun. Browsers will no longer be just windows to the internet.

Of course, Aria is still a new tool and Opera will likely continue to update it as time goes on. Perhaps Opera will eventually include the rendering capabilities that Microsoft recently added to its browser. In addition to Aria, Opera One also comes with a few extra upgrades. These include new “tab islands” that automatically group related tabs according to their context, a new design, and an upgraded browser architecture. You can try Aria and the new Opera One browser for Windows, macOS and Linux.