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Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
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Updated Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Key facts
- Updated at 23:45 UTC April 30 to add a comment from a Google spokesperson
- It's not that small – Google recommends having 22 GB of space available, though the Nano (v3Nano) model for desktop use is ~4.27 GB
- For generative tasks (composition, tag generation, etc), 24.29 percent of Edge's and 15.17 percent of Chrome's responses failed to complete the task," the report says, in reference to a rubric
- In terms of groundedness and accuracy, Edge failed ("hallucinated") 17 percent of the time while Chrome failed 6 percent of the time
Summary
Jake Archibald, Mozilla web developer relations lead, articulated the org’s concerns in a GitHub discussion of the API, which provides a standard way to send and receive prompts and responses from a local machine learning model. "We continue to oppose this API, and feel it has severe negative consequences to the interoperability, updatability, and neutrality of the web platform," said Archibald. The Prompt API, as Google describes it, "gives web pages the ability to directly prompt a browser-provided language model. It's not that small – Google recommends having 22 GB of space available, though the Nano (v3Nano) model for desktop use is ~4.27 GB.