Opera Neon is Getting a Deep Research Agent

Opera’s agentic web browser Neo will soon have an agent for deep research tasks, called ODRA, for Opera Deep Research Agent. It will work alongside Neon’s first three agents, Chat, Do, and Make.

“For more than two years we’ve been developing our AI engine and creating various AI solutions in our browsers,” Opera’s Monika Kurczyńska writes. “We know that you expect a lot from the responses you get from your AI agents, and that’s why we’re bringing ODRA into Opera Neon – so you can get the most complete answers to your evermore complex questions and queries.”

Opera says that ODRA goes beyond web search or a traditional AI query by checking numerous sources and creating customized reports over a period of time. And it ran ODRA against the the DeepResearch Bench test with impressive results: It was only outscored by Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Research, and then only barely. The key to this success, Opera says, is that ODRA parallelizes operations on the server side, dividing the problem into multiple smaller tasks to solve and running separate AI “researchers” against each.

ODRA will initially be added to the Neon Omnibox (address bar) alongside the other agents, but it will work differently and may come back with requests for additional information before continuing. Deep research tasks typically take 15 to 20 minutes to complete, at which point you will receive a research document or report in the AI chat.

Opera says that ODRA will be made available to those with access to Neon “very soon.”