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Inform users of model download | AI on Chrome | Chrome for Developers

Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 6d

Before the built-in AI APIs in Chrome can be used, the underlying AI model and any customizations must be downloaded 🌐, the data be extracted 🗜️, and be loaded into memory 🧠 . My guide documents best practices for improving the UX as they wait: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/info... #WebAI #BuiltInAI

This guide explains how to improve the user experience while waiting for built-in AI models and their customizations to download, extract, and load into memory, offering both client-side only and hybr...

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CG, WG, W3C, Lively—Wasm standardization with Thomas Lively - WasmAssembly

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 10d

📢 New #WasmAssembly podcast episode: CG, WG, W3C, Lively — #Wasm standardization with Thomas Lively!

We talk about Thomas' role as co-chair of the #WebAssembly Community Group at the W3C and the two proposals he champions.

🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDGq...
🎧 wasmassembly.libsyn.com/cg-wg-w3c-li...

CG, WG, W3C, Lively—Wasm standardization with Thomas Lively - WasmAssembly

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 10d

That's @tlively.bsky.social of course.

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 10d

📢 New #WasmAssembly podcast episode: CG, WG, W3C, Lively — #Wasm standardization with Thomas Lively!

We talk about Thomas' role as co-chair of the #WebAssembly Community Group at the W3C and the two proposals he champions.

🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDGq...
🎧 wasmassembly.libsyn.com/cg-wg-w3c-li...

Add native translation support based on the Translator API by tomayac · Pull Request #9070 · bluesky-social/social-app

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 16d

On Android, they hook into a possibly installed translation app like the native Google Translate app or any app that supports a "process text" intent: github.com/bluesky-soci.... On my device, it shows a picker where I can select apps like Google Translate, but also Microsoft Edge or ChatGPT.

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 16d

👋 Hi Bluesky! I've opened github.com/bluesky-soci... that adds built-in translation as a progressive enhancement on browsers that ship the Translator API developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/tran... (Chrome 138+). On other browsers, it falls back to the present behavior of linking to Google Translate.

Fixes Language Translator #2863 Fixes [APP-438] In-app translation #404 Fixes Bluesky should support inline translations via DeepL #1327 Fixes Translation of post should be in app #7427 Fixes Integ...

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Christian Liebel @christianliebel.com · 16d

We're excited to announce the release of version 0.0.10 of our TypeScript types for Built-in AI APIs, now featuring support for the brand-new Proofreader API! Check it out and upgrade today: www.npmjs.com/package/@typ... @tomayac.com #BuiltinAI #WebAI

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 21d

I got nerd-sniped 🤓 by the very Andreas Rossberg into creating a custom element that shows the various #Wasm features and the many #WebAssembly engines' compatibility with those features.

webassembly.org/news/2025-09....

A <code><wasm-compat></code> custom element - WebAssembly

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 21d

In #WebAssembly spec news, #Wasm 3.0 is complete 🎉! Read all about it in Andreas Rossberg's article: webassembly.org/news/2025-09....

Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 24d

On the Chrome team, we've a cool new origin trial for you to try in your apps: the Proofreader API: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/proo....

❌ tyop → ✅ typo

```js
await (await Proofreader.create({
expectedInputLanguages: ['en'],
})).proofread(
'Let us knwo how it foes',
);
```

#BuiltInAI #WebAI

The Proofreader API | AI on Chrome | Chrome for Developers

Improve your content readability and grammar with the Proofreader API.

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Christian "Schepp" Schaefer @schepp.dev · 28d

For anyone understanding 🇩🇪 German: we recently did a whole podcast episode with @tomayac.com on all these APIs (also talking about how Google and Microsoft back them with their individual own LLMs, Gemini / Phi):

workingdraft.de/677/

Revision 677: Local AI | Working Draft

Local AI, also KI-Modelle, die direkt auf dem Gerät laufen, statt in der Cloud, gewinnen aktuell enorm an Bedeutung. Einen neue Ansatz dafür bieten die neuen Chrome Built-in AI APIs, mit denen Entwick...

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Sep 9

Did some exploration around stress-testing the multimodal capabilities of the Prompt API and found out that apparently it's quite 🎨 color-sensitive: blog.tomayac.com/2025/09/16/p.... Not something super actionable, other than maybe a heads up to play with color-preprocessing.

Prompt API color sensitivity

Prompt API color sensitivity

Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Sep 9

Did some exploration around stress-testing the multimodal capabilities of the Prompt API and found out that apparently it's quite 🎨 color-sensitive: blog.tomayac.com/2025/09/16/p.... Not something super actionable, other than maybe a heads up to play with color-preprocessing.

For all that's holy, can you just leverage the Web, please?

Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Sep 3

For all that's holy, can you just leverage the Web, please?

🔗 blog.tomayac.com/2025/09/03/f...

A blog post about our washing machine and registering it, so we get 10 years of warranty. Featuring call center hell, website hell, customer comms hell, and an actually useful #WebAI feature with demo.

Revision 677: Local AI | Working Draft

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Sep 2

I had the honor of being on the @workingdraft.de podcast again to chat about built-in AI APIs we're working on in Chrome. Give the episode a listen 🎧!

Working Draft @workingdraft.de · Sep 2

Revision 677: Local AI workingdraft.de/677/ mit @tomayac.com

Local AI, also KI-Modelle, die direkt auf dem Gerät laufen, statt in der Cloud, gewinnen aktuell enorm an Bedeutung. Einen neue Ansatz dafür bieten die neuen Chrome Built-in AI APIs, mit denen Entwick...

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Aug 6

Ah. Perfect. In this case you know yourself what you need to know. I was wondering if you were thinking about other embedders you have no control over that may have taken locks.

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Aug 5

It seems like this is (or at least is related to) github.com/WICG/keyboar.... Might make sense to comment there with your use case. When would you not know when a keyboard lock is taken, but be in a position to query this information? In an iframe embed?

Provide a way to retrieve keys which should be locked · Issue #72 · WICG/keyboard-lock

Since the goal here is to allow web applications to override shortcuts from the OS or UA there should be a way to determine for which shortcuts this is required. Otherwise an application has no way...

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Jul 25

📢 New blog post: What a diff'rence a semicolon makes: blog.tomayac.com/2025/07/26/w.... Hat tip to André Jaenisch (not on Bluesky?) and @chriscoyier.net for pointing me at (André) and creating (Chris) the Web Development Merit Badges that I'm mentioning in the post.

What a diff'rence a semicolon makes

Dart, Flutter, and WasmGC with Ömer Ağacan and Martin Kustermann

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Jul 14

New #WasmAssembly podcast 🎙️ episode! Dart, Flutter, and WasmGC:

🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgOA...
🎧 wasmassembly.libsyn.com/dart-flutter...

🚀 In this episode, I chat with Ömer Ağacan & Martin Kustermann from Google's Dart team about #Dart, #Flutter, #WasmGC. A must-listen for #WebAssembly nerds.

Dart, Flutter, and WasmGC with Ömer Ağacan and Martin Kustermann

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Jul 14

New #WasmAssembly podcast 🎙️ episode! Dart, Flutter, and WasmGC:

🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgOA...
🎧 wasmassembly.libsyn.com/dart-flutter...

🚀 In this episode, I chat with Ömer Ağacan & Martin Kustermann from Google's Dart team about #Dart, #Flutter, #WasmGC. A must-listen for #WebAssembly nerds.

ReactJS Barcelona - July, mar, 15 jul 2025, 19:00 | Meetup

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Jun 25

On July 15, 2025, I'll give a talk at the #ReactJS #Barcelona #meetup on "Adding Built-in AI API support to Mastodon": www.meetup.com/es-ES/reactj.... You'll learn about built-in #WebAI APIs and how to use them in the large-scale React app Mastodon! (Caveat: PR pending—but it works on my machine 🫣…)

July Meetup is here! Let's gooo! We have some amazing speakers, and pizza and beer will be available after the event. ────────── **19:00: Welcome** Grab a beer, a snack, an

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · Jun 16

My #LocalFirstConf talk "Learn just enough about Chrome built-in AI to be productive" is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klKU.... This was a really fun one, hope you like it! 🍿

Thomas Steiner - Learn just enough about Chrome built-in AI to be productive

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