At the Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced the launch of new application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Edge browser, allowing web developers to integrate artificial intelligence directly into web applications through Edge. This was reported by The Verge.
These APIs provide access to the Phi-4-mini model, which operates locally on the device and features 3.8 billion parameters. As a result, web applications can utilize AI for generating, editing, and summarizing text without the need for cloud service connections. Microsoft is also planning to release APIs for text translation, enhancing the capabilities of local AI.
The company positions these APIs as potential web standards that will be compatible with other AI models and work across various platforms such as macOS.
Developers can already test the new APIs in the Edge Canary and Dev versions. This adds competitive features to the Edge browser, allowing it to rival Google Chrome, which also offers similar APIs that support text, image generation, and translation.
