The interest of those responsible for the Opera browser in artificial intelligence knows no bounds. They already demonstrated this, early last year, when less than a week after Microsoft introduced the new Bing (now Copilot) with artificial intelligence and its integration into Microsoft Edge, they announced that they were going to bring AI to your browser, first by integrating it into your sidebar panel, but also adds additional functionality based on it.

The move wasn’t instant, though understandably so. Let’s not forget that we are not talking about a large corporation and therefore its resources are limited. Despite this, a little more than a month later we started to see the first advances in this regard, and since then the arrival of new artificial intelligence features in Opera has been constant and All indications are that their plans in this regard will not stop in the short or medium term..

The latest and most interesting developments in this regard have occurred in recent months integrating more LLMs into Aria that we can use locallya limited but very convenient variant of what LM Studio offers us, and recently the introduction of a new model that allows the generation of images, which for this purpose is based on the Image 2 model, from Google Deep Mind, which is already available .

On this occasion, we are not facing a new feature, but rather an improvement of the existing one, because according to The Verge, Opera has added Google Gemini to Aria in all its browsers. And here is an important nuance, and that is that part of the news that we have seen in this sense in these months has only reached Opera One, but in this case we are talking about a movement that affects all versions of the browser, including its specific version for the gaming world, Opera GX.

In this case, yes, we have to take into account an important aspect, which is that we are talking about the standard version of Aria, which It doesn’t allow us to choose which model we want to use, it chooses the tool itself, according to your own criteria, which model is the most suitable for each occasion. If you want to be able to choose which model to use, and yes, do it locally, you’ll need to use the development version (we’ll tell you how to install it here). But in that case you can use Google Gemma but not Google Gemini.