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Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
Browser maker Opera has introduced a new web standard that lets users run AI models directly in its browser, without relying on the cloud.
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models. Opera name drops Google’s Gemma, an open-weight model that Google introduced two years ago, as one example. On Macs, WebAI also supports Apple’s on-device foundation model, the company says.
But Opera says WebAI isn’t tied to any particular model and is built to support a wide range of open-weight AI systems. WebAI grew out of previous work by Opera to bring locally run models into its browsers.
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