The Web Browser's AI sidebar uses a breakthrough localized processing solution to perform all AI operations directly on the user's device through the Apple MLX framework. This design allows sensitive operations such as web analytics, summary generation and contextualization to all be done locally, completely avoiding the data privacy risks of traditional cloud-based AI services.
In terms of technical implementation, the system uses the Neural Engine of the Apple Silicon chip to accelerate machine learning operations and builds intelligent analysis capabilities based on the Gemma model. When the user activates the AI sidebar (shortcut ⇧⌘A), the browser analyzes the DOM structure of the current web page in real time, extracts key semantic information, and combines it with the browsing history to generate context-sensitive smart summaries. The entire processing is completely offline, and no network data transfer is generated even when analyzing complex web content.
This feature is especially suited for professionals who handle sensitive information, such as lawyers, healthcare workers, and business executives. Compared to cloud service-dependent solutions such as Chrome/Bard and Edge/Copilot, Web's native AI architecture fundamentally solves the privacy leakage potential and meets the requirements of strict data protection regulations such as GDPR.
This answer comes from the articleWeb - macOS AI Browser: a native AI-powered browser for macOSThe
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