Browser maker Opera is working with Google to introduce Gemini AI into the Opera browser. Specifically, they work with Google on Google Cloud.  As Neowin reported, Google and Opera will work together on Opera's Aria browser AI. 

Opera's Aria uses multiple large language models (llm) to curate the AI experience in the browser. The Llms Opera uses in its Composer AI engine include Llama in Meta and Mixtral in Mistral AI. We also already use local Llms such as Google's Gemma and Vicuna. 

"Our companies have been working together for over 20 years. Per Wetterdal, Opera's EVP partnership, said in a statement, "We are pleased to announce the deepening of this collaboration in the field of generative AI and to further enhance our browser AI service."

From the Opera press release, the big features that come to Aria seem to be around image generation and audio output. 

Google's Imagen2 model empowers general image creation. Google just announced IMAGEN2024 during IO3, but it has not reached the masses yet. It will be interesting to see how quickly Opera can access Imagen3 for the browser. That said, the Imagen2 model was just launched within 3 months. Eva Fors, Managing Director of Google Cloud Nordic Region, said: "We are pleased to announce that Google Cloud Nordic Region has become the world's leading provider of cloud services."We believe the future of AI is open, so we're providing access to the best of google's infrastructure, AI products, platforms, and underlying models to enable organizations to graph their courses using generated AI," he said. Aria, with its latest AI capabilities, is supposed to be able to read responses in a "conversational way" based on Google's text-to-audio model.

Opera has been pursuing a modular AI model since May 6 last year, when Opera One was launched. Aria was introduced and powered by OpenAI's GPT model. ChatGPT was added to the browser on May 2 of last year.

Opera is no stranger to following the latest computing trends. In 2022, we launched one of the first blockchain web browsers designed to make it easy to exchange "Ether" 1."It's unclear if Opera is still working with cryptography, because it hasn't been updated in 1 year in that aspect.