Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”

  • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That would be awesome. Like a greasemonkey/advanced unlock for those of us who don’t know how to code. So many times I wanted to customise a website but I don’t know how or it’s not worth the effort.

    But only of it was local, and specially on mobile, where I need the most, it will be impossible for years…

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I mean, you can run small models on mobile now, but they’re mostly good as a cog in an automation pipeline, not at (say) interpreting english instructions on how to alter a webpage.

      …Honestly, open weight model APIs for single-off calls like this are not a bad stopgap. It costs basically nothing, you can use any provider you want, its power efficient, and if you’re on the web, you have internet.

      • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You mean to use online LLM?

        No. That’s what I don’t want. If it was a company I trusted I would, but good luck with that. Mozilla is not that company anymore, even if they had the resources to host their own.

        But locally or in a server I trust? That would be awesome. AI is awesome, but not the people who runs it.

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          I mean, there are literally hundreds of API providers. I’d probably pick Cerebras, but you can take your pick from any jurisdiction and any privacy policy.

          I guess you could rent an on-demand cloud instance yourself too, that spins down when you aren’t using it.