Aria AI Comes to Opera for Android

Just days after it released its rearchitected, AI-native Opera One on desktop, Opera has brought its AI capabilities to its Android web browser too.

“AI has marked a profound and rapid change in our lives,” Opera vice president Stefan Stjernelund said. “How we work, how we acquire information, what we expect from our browsers: everything is changing. We’re extremely excited to put the potential of AI in everybody’s pocket, so that users can have a native AI tool like Aria right there when they’re on-the-go.”

Opera isn’t (yet?) replacing its mobile browser with Opera One. Instead, it has brought its Aria AI to the current mobile client. Aria’s capabilities are based on a combination of OpenAI ChatGPT 3.5 and live results from the web. Opera notes that its AI composer infrastructure allows it to easily extend Aria’s capabilities in the future, too, and it will soon support additional features, including integrated search services supported powered by Opera’s partners.

In use, Aria works similarly on mobile as it does on desktop, though it’s accessed a bit differently since there’s no sidebar in the mobile version of Android. Instead, you can tap your profile icon in the toolbar and then choose “Aria browser AI” from the pop-up shade that appears. (Aria is opt-in and requires you to create and sign into an Opera account.)

You can download Opera for Android from the Google Play Store.