Hey everyone! I’m Nuked and I’m excited to tell you about the new AI-powered features that Opera is adding to its sidebar.

Opera’s new feature, called “shorten”, is powered by ChatGPT and will generate brief summaries of webpages and articles. All you have to do is click the “shorten” button to the right of the address bar and a sidebar with ChatGPT will pop out from the left. It’s really simple and quite handy!

This news comes just days after Microsoft revealed similar AI-powered tools for Bing and Edge. Google has also recently demonstrated its AI search bot Bard, although it’s not available for users to try yet.

According to Opera’s head of strategic partnerships and AI ecosystem, Per Wetterdal, we are seeing rapid rollouts of developer programs for AI solutions, and it’s starting to build and roll out new experiences in web browsing that seemed impossible just a few years ago.

The “shorten” feature isn’t available to everyone just yet, but Opera’s vice president of marketing and communications, Jan Standel, assures us that it will launch in browsers very soon. Opera is also working on other AI-powered features that could “augment” the browsing experience and add popular AI-generated content services to the sidebar.