Opera announced plans to use ChatGPT to incorporate generative AI capabilities into its web browser in February. The independent browser developer has now launched sidebar integration for ChatGPT and ChatSonic, as well as clever AI Prompts, a new feature. You must first upgrade your browser before going to Easy Setup and turning on the “AI Prompts” checkbox at the bottom. You must also enable the Early Bird option in your browser’s options in order to use the Opera GX browser for games.
When the option is enabled, buttons for the chatbots will appear on your sidebar. You can click on these buttons to start the chatbots in your browser. Be aware that in order to use either, you must first log in. The new contextual AI Prompts in the browser that appear when you highlight content on a webpage now let you begin chatbots.
The prompts offer several examples of how you may utilise chatbots with material on the page, such making a passage of text into a soap opera or a football commentary or leveraging the content to generate quiz questions. (I made my post about Horizon Worlds VR’s new quests feature into a soap opera; suffice it to say that it wouldn’t feel out of place on Dynasty or Riverdale.) Purple prompts make use of ChatSonic’s service, whereas green prompts use ChatGPT.
The capabilities that will emerge with the second stage of Opera’s Browser AI plan will be built on its own GPT-based browser AI engine, the company claims. These are only components of the first stage. After ChatGPT became extremely popular and Microsoft, a long-time supporter of OpenAI, released its Bing Chat AI and Edge Copilot tools, many software businesses are scrambling to release their own AI solutions. While Google recently expanded the availability of its chatbot Bard in the US and the UK, Baidu just introduced its ERNIE bot a few days ago.
