WebAI: Local AI for the web, now in Opera
Hey all,
Back in 2024, Opera was the first major browser to give built-in access to local AI models in an experimental developer build. Since then, advances in open-weight models and consumer hardware have made running AI on your computer more practical.
At the same time, developers want to build AI into their sites and extensions without sending every request to the cloud, paying for every token, or tying their users to one vendor’s model. Many would rather hand that work to AI running on the user’s own computer.
Today, we’re starting a bigger push into local AI, making it a…
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