There appears to be a new competitor in the race to improve products with AI chatbots, even as Microsoft and Google compete for the top slot. Opera is the newest player after its parent firm Kunlun Tech said on Wednesday that it will be incorporating ChatGPT into its software. CNBC released a story on the development.
However, neither the company’s estimated time of the integration nor any information regarding the functionalities have been made public.
Right now, Opera provides a wide range of products. While many of these are just different iterations of its web browser, the business has recently begun broadening its portfolio with products that do more than just browse the internet. Among other things, Loomi is a video streaming service and GameMaker is a “full development environment” for games. Though the company’s fleet of browsers is the obvious choice, it is yet unknown how and where ChatGPT will be integrated.
According to Statcounter data, Opera only holds a 2.4% market share for browsers, much below Firefox and Samsung Internet. Safari comes in second place with a share of 18.71%, trailing Chrome at the top of the rankings with 65.4%.
Not just Opera will incorporate AI chatbot technology into a browser. The Bing search engine and Microsoft’s Edge browser will soon benefit from AI and provide new ways to explore the internet, according to recent announcements from the company.
Although Bard, Google’s own artificial intelligence chatbot, didn’t quite turn out as Google had intended, the company is still competing with Microsoft and OpenAI. After Bard provided false information during its initial demo, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. saw its worth decline by $100 billion.
