Opera AI (formerly Aria)

https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/02/aria-gets-memory-feature-new-ai-feature-drop/

Memory feature stores user-declared preferences and facts; injected into future prompts. Understands current tab content; manages open tabs contextually. Memory off by default, end-user controlled, stored alongside the prompt rather than the LLM.

At a glance

Type
User-declared preferences + tab management
Tier
T2
Created
searched not found
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS
License
not applicable — not OSS
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo
Pricing
Free (included with Opera browser); Opera One Pro has additional AI credits
Funding
Opera public (OPRA on NASDAQ); founded 1995; market cap ~$1.5B

Taxonomy

storage
kv
retrieval
injection
persistence
long-term
update
overwrite
unit
fact
governance
user-controllable
conflict
none

When to use

Optimised for: user-declared preferences + tab management

Anti-fit: not for enterprise programmatic use

Pros & cons

Pros

Memory layered into a long-running browser brand with strong gaming + creator audience.

Cons

Opera-browser-only; smaller AI mind-share than Edge or Comet.

Claims & capabilities

Opera browser ~350M users globally. Memory feature shipped in Opera Developer Feb 2025.

Technical surface

API surface
not applicable — browser feature
Backend storage
custom
Deployment
Managed-only (Opera browser)
Embedding model
locked
Multi-tenancy
not applicable — single-user
MCP
searched not found
A2A
searched not found
OpenTelemetry
searched not found

Similar systems

Other browser-agent memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.

  • Brave Leo T2

    Privacy-focused integrated assistant. Memory is user-curated: explicit facts and preferences persist across all sessions, stored locally with no server retention. Agentic browsing experiment (Brave Nightly Dec 2025) takes multi-step actions inside sites referencing those preferences.

  • Browserbase T1

    Cloud browser infrastructure for AI agents. Headless Chromium sessions with persistent cookies, localStorage, session recording — agent workflows carry state across runs. Memory at the session/automation tier rather than conversational.

  • Dia (Atlassian) T1

    The Browser Company's AI-native browser; acquired by Atlassian for $610M (Sept 2025). Stores summaries and preferences locally; opt-in @history feature references up to 7 days of browsing as context. History/chats/bookmarks encrypted local-first.

  • Fellou T1

    Silicon Valley. Spatial agentic browser with explicit Agentic Memory layer learning from history and notes for instant recall of past research sessions. Operates on logged-in accounts (Quora, X, etc.); runs tasks while user is idle.

  • Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode + Journeys T1

    Copilot Mode (Oct 2025): Journeys groups related browsing across sessions into resumable project cards with AI summaries. Copilot Actions execute multi-step tasks inside the browser. Assistant can see all open tabs with permission and draws on history.

  • Perplexity Comet T1

    AI-native Chromium-based browser. Assistant operates across tabs and sessions; persistent memory of preferences; multi-step agentic tasks without leaving the browser. Memory is opt-in and server-side; enterprise memory tier separately available.

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