Opera Releases Opera Mini for iPhone

Web browsing company Opera today released a new version of its most popular mobile browser app, Opera Mini, for iPhone users. The revamped user interface features a newsfeed on its start page and helps users get the news four times faster than the previous version. An artificial intelligence news engine is also rolling out to selected countries.

Opera’s AI news engine uses real-time intelligence ranking, powered by machine learning (G.B.D.T. algorithm) and deep learning (D.N.N. deep neural network). Once a user starts engaging with news content, it will begin defining a unique user profile by accumulating news categories and publisher domains the user clicks on. The more the user engages with the newsfeed, the more in-tune the content becomes for the user within the “For You” section.

The Opera AI news engine also includes feedback from local editorial teams. These teams monitor the AI-generated newsfeed in an attempt to identify and remove fake news as quickly as possible. The Opera AI news engine currently processes and fetches news in selected countries, including Ghana, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and the U.S. It will soon be coming to Russia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.