Opera will run AI locally in your browser now – why that’s a gamechanger and how to try it

ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Opera is releasing an important AI feature.
• Local AI is now getting built right into the web browser.
• There’ll be no need to configure or install the likes of Ollama.

Opera just made a bold choice: Thanks to the newly proposed WebAI web standard, the company will soon be shipping local AI models with its browser. By doing so, Opera’s AI ensures that your queries and/or data remain on your machine.

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According to Opera, because this new feature uses open-weight AI models, anyone can build on top of those models without running expensive AI infrastructure or paying for every request. That equates to more innovation for the Opera browser.

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