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Opera Wants AI to Move Into the Browser Without Renting Cloud Space
· New York time
Opera has introduced WebAI, a proposed web standard designed to let users deploy a variety of AI models locally in their browsers. The proposal imagines the browser as more than a window onto remote services: it could also provide a home for models running on a user's device. A standard that works across different models could make local AI more accessible to web developers and users, though introducing a standard is not the same as establishing universal adoption. The appeal is a familiar one in a new setting: putting a tool closer to where people already work. Browsers once competed to display pages. Now they are also competing to become the place where an assistant lives. Opera's pitch gives that assistant a desk inside the browser rather than another address somewhere else. The browser tab, already crowded with unfinished tasks, may soon need an office manager.
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