The news of Shorten comes in the same week that Microsoft claimed it was revamping Edge to include a “AI-powered copilot” to the browser. Web page summarization is one of the capabilities of the company’s new Prometheus model. Google also revealed this week that it is working on Bard, an AI chatbot powered by its LaMDA platform. The timing of the releases shows that Opera and Microsoft see generative AI as a chance to disrupt Google’s browser market dominance. But, whether or not such changes cause consumers to abandon Chrome remains to be seen.
