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Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser

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229 points modinfo | 4 comments | 30 Jun 24 01:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.655s | source
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flakiness ◴[30 Jun 24 04:00 UTC] No.40835054[source]▶
So they don't standardize things anymore?

Look at WebNN [1]. It's from Microsoft and is basically DirecttML but they at least pretend to make it a Web thing.

The posture matters. Apple tried to expose Metal through WebGPU [2] then silent-abandoned it. But they had the posture, and other vendors picked it up and made it real.

That won't happen to window.ai until they stop sleepwalking.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/

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1. fyrn_ ◴[30 Jun 24 04:22 UTC] No.40835127[source]▶
Don't have to when you they have achived a functionally total monopoloy
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2. bpye ◴[30 Jun 24 05:06 UTC] No.40835267[source]▶
IE6 had that as well, until it didn’t.
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3. plorkyeran ◴[30 Jun 24 05:16 UTC] No.40835294[source]▶
The only reason IE lost its monopoly is because MS entirely abandoned working on it for years. They had to build a new team from scratch when they eventually decided to begin work on IE7.
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4. zaphirplane ◴[30 Jun 24 05:55 UTC] No.40835380{3}[source]▶
That’s the period of time that html and JavaScript was static or stagnant depending on your perspective