Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

Browser maker Opera has introduced a new web standard that lets users run AI models directly in its browser, without relying on the cloud

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models. Opera name drops Google's Gemma — an open-weight model that Google introduced two years ago — as one example. On Macs, WebAI also supports Apple's on-device foundation model, the company says