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

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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. kinlan ◴[30 Jun 24 07:06 UTC] No.40835599[source]▶
It's a very experimental API and that's why it's only behind a flag and not available to the general web for people to use. We will be taking these through the standards process (e.g the higher level translate API - https://github.com/WICG/translation-api)
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2. zelphirkalt ◴[30 Jun 24 08:45 UTC] No.40835913[source]▶
Any observable behavior ...