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1. "Calcifying around a single model". Make it pluggable like search. 2. "To use the prompt API you must acknowledge Google's Generative AI Prohibited Uses Policy.". Yeah that's very bad. 3. "Overstated web developer position". Come on. Let's not create another iPhone moment for the web.

Luke

@lukewarlow.dev

I'm curious what do you mean around point 3? I think it's good to point out that the bar for what some consider (or pretend to consider) as strong support, differs *a lot*. The issue with making the model pluggable is that sites might still design around a specific model that then can't be swapped

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Bret Little

@bretlittle.com

Firefox for Web Developers

Seems to me a lot of this is solved if somehow the developer can plug the model in a standard way. Use what the browser provides, or plug your own. Unsure what that would actually look like though.

@webdevs.firefox.com

learn.microsoft.comWebNN OverviewThe Web Neural Network API (WebNN) is an emerging web standard that allows web apps and frameworks to accelerate deep neural networks with on-device hardware.

Microsoft were looking at something like that learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window.... There are issues though. Even the small models are GBs in size.

lots of market signal, including charts like the one below, exponential growth in quarterly revenue (stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...) and many other indicators ourworldindata.org/ai-investments. If this isn't clearing the bar, then the bar is set somewhere above Pluto's orbit.

Olivier Forget

@olivierforget.net

1 May

In the chart above every line apart from AI requires the purchase of hardware to make it work. Getting electricity to your house ⚖️ Visit openai dot com Not saying AI adoption isn't strong, just that the comparisons here are apples and oranges.

Firefox for Web Developers

1 May

…Paying $200/m? Also check out the other indicators linked. Facebook and TikTok and WeChat are all massive, sw only, no sub, and compete with the open web in their own ways. The point of the chart isn’t a “fair race” but rather to curve fit and benchmark where top of s-curve will be.

@webdevs.firefox.com

Our opposition here is against the API being proposed & (soon to be) shipped by Chrome. It isn't a statement against (or indeed, for) LLMs in general.