At the Build 2025 conference, Microsoft unveiled exciting new APIs for the Edge browser that will enable web developers to seamlessly integrate artificial intelligence into their web applications. The Verge reports on this development.

These APIs provide access to the Phi-4-mini model, which operates locally on devices and boasts 3.8 billion parameters. This feature allows web applications to utilize AI for generating, editing, and summarizing text without the need for cloud services. Furthermore, Microsoft plans to release a text translation API, enhancing the capabilities of local AI.

The company is positioning these APIs as potential web standards that will be compatible with other AI models and will work across various platforms, including macOS.

Developers can already test the new APIs in the Edge Canary and Dev versions, which boosts Edge's competitiveness against Google Chrome, which also offers similar APIs for text generation, image creation, and translation.