Built-in AI APIs & WebNN: AI right in your browser, local and offline-capable

More and more developers intend to integrate Generative AI features into their applications. Until now, this path has practically always led to the cloud—but it doesn't have to be like that! Currently, various promising approaches exist to running AI models directly on the user's computer. With Chromium's new Built-in AI APIs, we can now bring Large Language Models to your browser: locally and offline-capable. The W3C's Web Neural Network API (WebNN) will grant AI models access to the device's Neural Processing Unit (NPU). The advantages of these approaches are obvious: Locally executed AI models are available offline, the user data does not leave the device, and all this is even free of charge thanks to open-source models. In this talk, Christian Liebel, Thinktecture's representative at W3C, will present the approaches to make your single-page app smarter. We will discuss use cases and show the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.