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Oslo, what could you build in 48 hours?
We’re sponsoring Oslo Sprint, a 48-hour hackathon bringing young builders together for a weekend of experimenting and innovating with AI.
November 6–8. Ages 15–29. 50,000 NOK up for grabs.
Ready to build? oslosprint.org/en/
We’re sponsoring Oslo Sprint, a 48-hour hackathon bringing young builders together for a weekend of experimenting and innovating with AI.
November 6–8. Ages 15–29. 50,000 NOK up for grabs.
Ready to build? oslosprint.org/en/
Vertical tabs are NOW LIVE in Opera Neon!
Update Neon, enable vertical tabs in Settings, and give them a spin!
Update Neon, enable vertical tabs in Settings, and give them a spin!
This is just the beginning.
More local models, more ways to run AI on your own machine.
Starting today with WebAI, bringing models like Gemma and Apple's Foundation Models into the browser 👇
More local models, more ways to run AI on your own machine.
Starting today with WebAI, bringing models like Gemma and Apple's Foundation Models into the browser 👇
What if you could use AI without sending your data to the cloud?
Introducing WebAI, a set of browser APIs that lets developers integrate locally running AI models into websites and extensions they build.
It’s opening up new possibilities - now in early preview in Opera One and Opera Neon, with Opera GX to follow.
🧵 Here's how it works.View quoted post on X
AI can build you an app in an hour and a website in ten minutes. That part is real, and honestly, it's impressive.
The problem is what most people do next. They look at what came back, see that it works, and call it done. Then they put it out there and can't figure out why nobody cares.
Usually it's because you can tell nobody cared while making it either.
AI is great at getting something to work. But getting something to work and making something people actually want to use are two different things.
Take a website. You ask AI to build a landing page for a fitness app, and it gives you something that looks perfectly fine.
Big headline: "Transform Your Fitness Journey."
A few generic promises about reaching your goals. Some stock-looking visuals. A big "Get Started" button.
Nothing is technically wrong with it. It's just a website that could belong to a thousand different apps.
Now imagine changing that headline to:
"Made it to the gym twice this week? That's two more times than last week."
Suddenly, you're speaking to a specific person with a specific problem. Someone who struggles with consistency, not someone looking for another app promising to transform their life.
That's the difference. AI built the page, but someone had to decide who it was for and what would actually resonate with them.
And it's not just websites. You see it in AI-written posts, presentations, videos, and almost anything else people are generating.
None of this means you should stop using AI. It means the first output probably shouldn't be the final one.
When anyone can make something in minutes, the interesting part becomes what you choose to change.
So what gives it away for you? What's the first thing that makes you think "yeah, nobody touched this after AI made it"?
The problem is what most people do next. They look at what came back, see that it works, and call it done. Then they put it out there and can't figure out why nobody cares.
Usually it's because you can tell nobody cared while making it either.
AI is great at getting something to work. But getting something to work and making something people actually want to use are two different things.
Take a website. You ask AI to build a landing page for a fitness app, and it gives you something that looks perfectly fine.
Big headline: "Transform Your Fitness Journey."
A few generic promises about reaching your goals. Some stock-looking visuals. A big "Get Started" button.
Nothing is technically wrong with it. It's just a website that could belong to a thousand different apps.
Now imagine changing that headline to:
"Made it to the gym twice this week? That's two more times than last week."
Suddenly, you're speaking to a specific person with a specific problem. Someone who struggles with consistency, not someone looking for another app promising to transform their life.
That's the difference. AI built the page, but someone had to decide who it was for and what would actually resonate with them.
And it's not just websites. You see it in AI-written posts, presentations, videos, and almost anything else people are generating.
None of this means you should stop using AI. It means the first output probably shouldn't be the final one.
When anyone can make something in minutes, the interesting part becomes what you choose to change.
So what gives it away for you? What's the first thing that makes you think "yeah, nobody touched this after AI made it"?