Opera Brings Local AI Into the Browser With Its WebAI Standard
Browser maker Opera has unveiled WebAI, a proposed web standard that lets websites and browser extensions use AI models running directly in the browser on your own machine. Your requests and data stay on your device. The feature has been available as an early preview in Opera One since late October 2026. According to ZDNET, the proposal is backed by companies such as Google and Microsoft. That claim comes from …
- Opera has unveiled WebAI, a proposed web standard that gives websites and extensions access to browser-native AI.
- WebAI is model-agnostic and built around open-weight models. Google's Gemma and Apple's on-device model on the Mac are named.
- The early preview runs in Opera One on 64-bit Windows (Intel/AMD) and Macs with Apple Silicon. It doesn't run on Intel Macs, Linux or Windows on Arm.