At Build 2025, Microsoft announced new APIs for the Edge browser, enabling developers to integrate AI capabilities into web applications. These APIs support Phi 4 mini, a novel AI model tailored for efficiency and mathematical tasks, featuring approximately 3.8 billion parameters. Upcoming releases will include writing assistance and translation APIs. Microsoft emphasizes privacy with on-device processing to protect sensitive data. This move aims to compete with similar offerings from Google Chrome and encourages developers to consider Edge as a viable platform for AI-powered applications.
These experimental APIs are intended as potential web standards and will work across platforms, browsers, and with other AI models, ensuring versatility for developers.
Microsoft's move suggests that it's keen to offer a competitor to Google Chrome's integrated AI capabilities, aiming to attract more developers to Edge.
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