Opera previews WebAI, a proposed web standard for running open-weight models locally in the browser
Opera shipped WebAI as an opt-in early preview, giving websites and extensions on-device APIs such as prompt, summarizer, translator and embeddings that run on a local open-weight model like Gemma instead of a cloud service. Sites need per-site permission, and support is limited to recent Windows PCs and Apple Silicon Macs for now.
Why it matters
Proposes a vendor-neutral alternative to Chrome's Gemini Nano built-in AI APIs for client-side inference in web apps.