Web developers will be able to start taking advantage of AI on devices in Microsoft's Edge browser, using new APIs that can give their web applications access to the Phi-4-minini model in Microsoft, the company announced during its construction conference today. And Microsoft says that the API will be multiplate, it therefore seems that these APIs will also work with the Edge browser in MacOS.
The parameter of 3.8 billion billion Phi-4-Mini is the last small model on Microsoft disk, deployed in February alongside the largest phi-4 of the company. With new APIs, web developers will be able to add prompt boxes and offer writing assistance tools for text generation, summary and publishing. And in the coming months, Microsoft says that he will also publish a text translation API.
Microsoft puts these “experimental” APIs as potential web standards, and in addition to being multiplateform, he indicates that they will also work with other AI models. Developers can start testing them in the Edge Canary and Dev channels now, the company said.
Google offers similar APIs For his Chrome browser. With them, developers can use integrated chrome models to offer things Like text translation, prompt boxes for the generation of text and image and the creation of calendar events based on the content of the web page.
