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Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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Well I'm guessing they actually did testing on local AI using a 4GB and 8GB RAM laptop and realized it would be an awful user experience. It's just too slow.
I wish they rolled it in as an option though.
They wanted to use fast small language models, not LLMs like Llama
Llamafile with tinyllama model is 640mb. It could be a flag to enable or an extension