Opera 在 Opera One、GX 和 Neon 中推出 WebAI 本地 AI 预览
Opera is Bringing Local AI to its Web Browsers with WebAI
Opera 宣布 WebAI 本地 AI 能力已在 Opera One、Opera GX 和 Opera Neon 中开启早期预览，支持 Prompt、Decision 和 Semantic Embeddings API，开发者可直接在浏览器内调用包括开源权重模型在内的多种模型，无需安装或配置 AI 应用。Opera 同时给出六个实验性扩展示例，如按项目相关性给文章段落着色的 Project Lens、针对所读文章出题的 Got It?。该功能为可选开启，可在设置中关闭，目前 Opera One 已在 Windows x64 和 Mac Apple Silicon 上线，GX 与 Neon 稍后跟进。
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Opera announced that WebAI local AI capabilities are now available in early preview for Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Neon.
“We’re starting a bigger push into local AI, making it a central part of our browsers,” Opera’s Emily Northway explains. “The first step is WebAI, now in early preview across Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Neon. With local AI built into the browser, you can start creating your own browser capabilities instead of waiting for software companies to build them.”
Opera first brought local AI to Opera One as an experimental feature in early 2024 and a month later it said that it would expand availability to over 2000 local models. But since then, running local AI has become more practical, and as a proposed web standard backed by Google, Microsoft, and others, WebAI has emerged as the right way to let web browsers and extensions use local AI instead of cloud AI.
The Opera implementation of WebAI supports its the Prompt, Decision and Semantic Embeddings APIs and lets developers use a range of AI models directly in the browser, including open-weight models running on Opera’s inference engine. In that latter case, there’s no need to install or configure an AI app, as local inference is built into Opera’s browsers.
Opera created six experimental extensions to show the types of solutions that developers can build on WebAI:
Project Lens. Tell it what you’re working on, and it colors any article by how much each paragraph matters to your project
Got It? Writes a quick quiz about the article you just read, so you can check you understood it
Questionable Intelligence. Asks playful questions about the article you’re on and draws the verdict as a chart
Semantic Art. Turns an article into moving art, with similar sentences becoming visual neighbors
RecordIn Alchemy. Turns any article into an insufferably inspirational social media post
C·I·A·O (Cat Intelligence at Opera). Two ASCII cats improvise a scene on any topic you give them
WebAI in Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Neon is opt-in and can be disabled at any time. To give it a shot, update to the latest version of Opera One on Windows (x64 only for now) or Mac (Apple Silicon), navigate to Settings > Opera AI, turn on “Enable Web AI API,” and Opera One will download a local model. This feature will come to Opera GX and Opera Neon soon and, presumably, to the Windows 11 on Arm and Linux versions of each browser too.