Opera Announces New Browser, Opera One, Featuring AI-Powered Tab Islands
Opera, a boutique browser vendor, has revealed its latest offering, Opera One, which is a complete redesign of its existing browser. Opera One is equipped with new AI-powered tab grouping features called "Tab Islands" that automatically highlights and groups tabs, making browsing more convenient. The new browser also features a modular design, providing a cleaner and decluttered look that leaves plenty of space for future AI-based features and extensions.
Opera One has a slick new look and is optimized for modular elements, leaving it open to adding new AI-powered capabilities in the future. The new "multithreaded compositor" will enhance its performance, making it take advantage of the multicore capabilities of modern PCs. The browser is still in early developer mode and is expected to be released later this year for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
The flagship feature of Opera One is the AI-powered Tab Islands, which automatically groups related tabs, making it extremely convenient for browsing. When searching for hotels, condos, plane flights, and vacation activities, the Tab Islands will highlight and group those tabs. Each Tab Island appears as a separate row or column of tabs, separate from the others, making them easily distinguishable.
The new modular design of Opera One puts less in front of users, allowing for a cleaner and decluttered look. Opera One's modular design will conceal the elements it doesn't think users will need, entirely. The current version of Opera already supports AI content creation tools like ChatGPT and ChatSonic, and the modular design will allow it to add more AI capabilities as they come to market.
Opera's new browser will act more like modern games and apps with the multithreaded compositor, splitting up tasks among your processor's cores and threads, which will improve overall performance. The company is also promising its own AI engine, potentially offering its own spin, integrating Bing AI in Microsoft Edge and what Google will do with Bard. Opera has already used AI intelligence to clean up video, too. It is not known whether all of these features will be available by the time Opera One is launched, but it could give users one more reason to switch from Chrome to Opera.
