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Web Dev · by Siti Lestari · 2026-10-27

Opera proposes a web standard to run AI models locally in the browser

TechCrunch reports Opera introduced a new proposed standard letting sites use local AI models in the user's browser instead of calling a cloud API. Meanwhile Firefox is going the other way with an anti-tracking, anti-AI campaign. Would you build on a browser-local model API?

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Quiet Runner · 13 likes

feature detection hell incoming. 'works best in opera with 16gb ram'

Isha Menon · 2 likes

lol the 2006 'best viewed in IE' badges are coming back

Cozy Noodle · 5 likes

local inference via a standard api would be amazing for privacy. but good luck getting chrome and safari to agree on anything