Microsoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge
Briefly

Microsoft announced at its Build conference that web developers will soon have access to new on-device AI APIs within the Edge browser. These APIs will allow developers to utilize the Phi-4-mini model for text generation, summarization, and editing capabilities. The APIs are cross-platform, ensuring compatibility with macOS, and will include a text translation feature in a few months. Microsoft aims for these experimental APIs to establish new web standards, similar to existing offerings by Google for Chrome, enriching the web development landscape.
Web developers will soon leverage on-device AI in Microsoft's Edge, using new APIs for tools like text generation and summarizing.
Microsoft will roll out APIs allowing access to its Phi-4-mini model, enhancing web apps with AI capabilities within Edge.
The new AI APIs will be compatible across platforms, including macOS, with plans for a text translation API to follow.
Microsoft's experimental APIs aim to establish new web standards, similar to those offered by Google for Chrome, enhancing developer capabilities.
Read at The Verge
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