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Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by wkat4242 »

raul-pilla wrote: post #53
constantcrying wrote: post #3

The question I have is, why should your browser also be the interface to local AI models? Seems totally unrelated to be honest.

The browser is the new OS.

Only according to some specific streams of thought within IT. It's not really the mainstream view. That's while apps still exist both on mobile and desktop.

Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by superkuh »

There is no Opera much in the way there is no Burma, Corsica, Bengal, or Ottoman Empire. People still know the name but the thing the name is associated with is not the thing. "Opera" is just some random chrome skin run for profitable spying by Zhou Yahui.

Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by bastawhiz »

constantcrying wrote: post #3

The question I have is, why should your browser also be the interface to local AI models? Seems totally unrelated to be honest.

> why should your browser also be the interface to local AI models?

Opera has historically been a junk drawer of technology. A BitTorrent client. A mail app. A chat app. A web server. There have been innumerable features which were often unnecessary or puzzling. It does not surprise me at all to hear that they're adding local LLM support.

Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by notatoad »

katsura wrote: post #103
FredPret wrote: post #91

Playing fast and loose with "major"

Based on some stats they are at more or less the same level as Firefox[0]. Obviously, you can't trust these 100%. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

if you limit it to desktop browsers, opera is 3% to firefox's 6%. i suspect the mobile stats include opera mini, which is not really the same thing.

Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by bootlooped »

FredPret wrote: post #91

Playing fast and loose with "major"

Very unfortunate, but true. Opera was the first browser I remember using besides Internet Explorer, and the amount of features it had compared to IE was a total game changer. I want to say Firefox was just called "Mozilla" back then and used a dinosaur logo. Eventually I switched to Firefox for quite a long time, but I'll always remember Opera fondly.

Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by methuselah_in »

Rinzler89 wrote: post #90
jabroni_salad wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opera has been bundling in a mail client, rss reader, calendar app etc for ages now. I also always thought it was weird but Opera people seem to like it, to the point that inspired browsers like Vivaldi also do that.

>Opera has been bundling in a mail client, rss reader, calendar app etc for ages now. Opera has been bundling stuff like that, even a BitTorrent client, even when they were still a Norwegian owned company.

Sorry? They are Chinese

Re: Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

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Post by Rinzler89 »

methuselah_in wrote: post #108
Rinzler89 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Opera has been bundling in a mail client, rss reader, calendar app etc for ages now. Opera has been bundling stuff like that, even a BitTorrent client, even when they were still a Norwegian owned company.

Sorry? They are Chinese

What I said above. Opera was Norwegian before that. Which part confuses you?
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