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Morning Brief · October 28th 2026
Opera proposes WebAI, a way for web pages to call a model on the reader's own computer
Opera introduced WebAI on Tuesday, a proposed standard that lets sites run models such as Google's Gemma locally in the browser, plus Apple's on-device model on Macs. It is an opt-in preview in Opera One, with Opera GX and Neon to follow.
A model running on the reader's machine keeps their text off a server. Whether it becomes a standard depends on Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and TechCrunch names no standards body behind it. SourcesB
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This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 28th 2026.