From PC World: Opera, which has established itself as a boutique browser vendor, has announced Opera One, a complete redesign and eventual replacement of its existing browser. Opera One features optimizations for modular elements and new AI-powered tab grouping features, called “Tab Islands.”
All told, Opera One has a slick new look, but with technical underpinnings that leave it open to adding new AI-powered capabilities in the future. Opera is also promising that a new “multithreaded compositor” will improve performance, so that Opera One takes advantage of the multicore capabilities of modern PCs.
The browser is in early developer mode, according to Opera, and will be released later this year for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
When you think of AI, AI art generators or chatbots like ChatGPT come to mind. But the flagship feature of Opera One is something called Tab Islands, which sounds like it could be extremely useful if it works as expected. Grouped tabs are nothing new, whether it’s simply manually re-arranging the tabs yourself versus tucking them away in one of the Collections of Microsoft Edge. What Opera One’s Tab Islands does is group them using AI.
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