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• Opera Mini, with over 100M users, now offers AI integration in its browser

• Amidst high data costs in key regions in Africa, Opera Mini provides affordable access to AI through data savings technologies and free data offers

OSLO, Norway, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Opera [NASDAQ: OPRA] is adding its browser AI, Aria, to Opera Mini, the Android-based browser with over 100M users worldwide. With this update Opera Mini is offering users across Africa and the world access to AI that can retrieve up-to-date information from the web, serve as a research assistant, help to learn new skills or summarize content online and create images inside the chat. This means Opera Mini is now providing a powerful AI experience integrated in the browser at no additional cost, all while saving data and not impacting the app's size.

"AI is rapidly becoming an integral part of the daily internet experience – bringing Aria to Opera Mini is a natural addition to our most-downloaded browser. With the addition of our built-in AI, Aria, we're excited to explore how AI can further enhance the feature set our users rely on every day," said Jørgen Arnesen, EVP Mobile at Opera.

Aria browser AI integrates into Opera's browsers on both desktop and mobile to enable an accessible chat-based interface to AI. It enhances user interaction through information retrieval, text or code generation, image generation and understanding. Aria is powered by Opera's own Composer AI engine, which utilizes both OpenAI and Google AI technologies to provide the most relevant answers, and it integrates image generation through Google's Imagen3 fast model. With today's update, Aria is now available across all Opera browsers.

To use Aria, Opera Mini users need to update to the latest version. They can access Aria in the main menu or at the bottom of the start page. Users can then ask questions, generate text and images, summarise text-based content, and get real-time web answers.

Opera Mini is the leading browser in Africa, with more than a billion downloads worldwide, thanks to its feature-packed offering – from live football scores to the built-in digital wallet MiniPay. For nearly 20 years, Opera Mini has played a key role in enabling internet access across Africa due to its lightweight design, data compression technology, and partnerships with local network providers to facilitate free data offers of 1.5GB monthly*.

On the African continent, the cost of mobile data as a share of GDP is much higher than in Europe or in Brazil, which highlights the digital divide.* According to a recent Opera survey and as a result of the recent price surge in Nigeria, 59%* of respondents in Nigeria say data is too expensive, and over half admit they often run out of data before the end of the month. In the face of these high data costs, Opera Mini helps bridge the digital gap by offering affordable access to new technologies, including AI-powered features.