Who owns Opera AI?
Opera AI is owned by Kunlun Tech (China, SZSE: 300418) through its subsidiary Opera.[1]
Kunlun Tech owns 68% of Opera rather than all of it.
Evidence: Opera Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025, SEC EDGAR, 27 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. via Opera verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Productivity & developer tools
- Parent ticker
- SZSE: 300418
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Opera AI
Opera AI is the assistant built into Opera's browsers, known as Aria until it was renamed. It runs on Composer, Opera's own engine, which the company describes as model-agnostic: Composer chooses between OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini and self-hosted open-source models such as Llama depending on the query, and paying subscribers can pick the model themselves instead of leaving the choice to the engine.
Ownership timeline of Opera AI
- Current owner Kunlun Tech via Opera [1] verified
Where Opera AI sits in Kunlun Tech
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 10 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- GameMaker
- MiniPay
- Opera (1996)
- Opera Ads
- Opera Air (2025)
- Opera GX
- Opera Mini
- Opera Neon (2025)
- Opera News (2017)
Other brands in productivity & developer tools, and who owns them
The 32 brands in productivity & developer tools on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is Dropbox, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DocSend | Dropbox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Baidu Drive | Baidu | 🇨🇳 China |
| 4PS | Hilti | 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein |
| Google Cloud | Alphabet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Angi | IAC | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Base44 | Wix | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| DingTalk | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
Every brand in productivity & developer tools and its owner →
About the owner: Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as SZSE: 300418.
Kunlun Tech is a Chinese internet company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the code 300418, with its business address in the Dongcheng District of Beijing. It appears here because of what it owns rather than what it sells: Opera's own annual report names Kunlun Tech the ultimate parent of Opera, held through its Hong Kong subsidiary Hong Kong Kunlun Tech Holding Limited, which beneficially owns 68 per cent of Opera's shares and makes Opera a controlled company under Nasdaq rules. Kunlun is itself controlled by James Yahui Zhou, who is also Opera's executive chairman and who holds 11.6 per cent of Kunlun directly and a further 15.1 per cent through a Beijing limited partnership he is the general partner of. Certain Opera employees are paid in options over Kunlun shares.
🇳🇴 Opera AI and other Norwegian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 63 brands that began in Norway. 18 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Opera AI among them.
- Penger.no — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- TIDAL — Block 🇺🇸
- Awilco LNG — Awilco LNG 🇳🇴
- Byggmakker — Kesko 🇫🇮
- Color Line — Color Line 🇳🇴
- Diplom-Is — TINE 🇳🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Opera AI?
The parent company of Opera AI is Kunlun Tech, a publicly listed company headquartered in China. Opera AI sits under Kunlun Tech's subsidiary Opera.
Is Opera AI Norwegian or Chinese?
Opera AI originated in Norway, but it is owned today by Kunlun Tech, which is headquartered in China. So Opera AI is a Norwegian-origin brand under Chinese ownership.
Is Opera AI still owned by Kunlun Tech?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Opera AI is still owned by Kunlun Tech. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Opera Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 27 March 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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