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Opera One now lets Mac users run Apple’s foundation model directly in the browser

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Opera One now lets Mac users run Apple’s foundation model directly in the browser

Starting today, Opera One users can access a preview feature that lets them tap into local AI models through WebAI, a proposed web standard. Here are the details.

Opera announced today that its Opera One browser is the first of its browsers to offer built-in access to local AI models, with Opera GX and Opera Neon to follow.

The feature relies on the WebAI proposed web standard, which allows websites and browser extensions to access AI models running locally on the user’s device.

WebAI is a proposed web standard, backed by companies such as Google and Microsoft, that lets websites and browser extensions use AI hosted through the browser. Opera’s implementation is model-agnostic and built around open models, offering users choice among AI providers. At launch, users can already tap into models from Google and Apple, including Google’s Gemma and, on Macs, Apple’s on-device foundation model, directly in Opera.

The company notes that WebAI can be used to generate text, classify content, and identify relationships between pieces of information, and adds that the feature is opt-in, with no subscription needed, and with users able to control which websites can access local AI models.

Here’s Opera again on some of the potential uses for local AI in the browser:

With local AI built into the browser, both users and developers can benefit from new capabilities. Local AI lets anyone build on top of free, open-weight AI models. Developers can add AI features without running AI infrastructure or paying for every request.



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