Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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New from my Web AI Lab: I’ve built an “article assistant” for my site that runs using local AI in the browser (via Chrome + Gemini Nano) when available — and falls back to a cloud model when it isn’t.

Before you dismiss this because it's AI, I think this has huge implications for the . Instead of sending every interaction to BigTech clouds, users can increasingly run AI on their own device: better privacy, lower cost & more user control.

Check it out: ricmac.org/2026/03/19/article-

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Building an article assistant: local AI in the browser with cloud fallback - Richard MacManus

How I built an article assistant for my website that uses local AI (via Chrome + Gemini Nano) when available, and falls back to a cloud model when it isn’t.

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