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The Verge
10-06-2025
- The Verge
Microsoft Edge is getting an AI-powered browser history that works with typos
Microsoft has started testing a new feature for its Edge browser that adds an AI-powered search to browsing history. This new 'enhanced search' feature lets you find websites in your browser history even if you use a phrase, synonym, or even a typo that's similar to the site you actually want to find. The AI-powered history search started appearing in beta versions of Microsoft Edge last week. 'After this feature is turned on, sites you visit will be shown in enhanced history search results,' explains Microsoft in its beta channel release notes. 'An on-device model is trained using your data, which never leaves your device and is never sent to Microsoft.' This optional feature seems like less of a privacy risk than Microsoft's Recall feature that screenshots most of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to make it easier to search for websites, photos, and documents. The use of an on-device model that's limited to your browser history is certainly better than having to store everything on your screen in a local database. Alongside the AI-powered browsing history, Microsoft is also adding a media control center to Edge that lets you control multiple media sources from websites. This media control center includes quick access to Edge's picture-in-picture mode, which itself is getting better controls, and the ability to control music, video, or other sounds that are playing inside Edge.
The Verge
19-05-2025
- The Verge
Microsoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge
Web developers will be able to start leveraging on-device AI in Microsoft's Edge browser soon, using new APIs that can give their web apps access to Microsoft's Phi-4-mini model, the company announced at its Build conference today. And Microsoft says the API will be cross-platform, so it sounds like these APIs will work with the Edge browser in macOS, as well. The 3.8-billion-parameter Phi-4-mini is Microsoft's latest small, on-device model, rolled out in February alongside the company's larger Phi-4. With the new APIs, web developers will be able to add prompt boxes and offer writing assistance tools for text generation, summarizing, and editing. And within the next couple of months, Microsoft says it will also release a text translation API. Microsoft is putting these 'experimental' APIs forth as potential web standards, and in addition to being cross-platform, it says they'll also work with other AI models. Developers can start trialing them in the Edge Canary and Dev channels now, the company says. Google offers similar APIs for its Chrome browser. With them, developers can use Chrome's built-in models to offer things like text translation, prompt boxes for text and image generation, and calendar event creation based on webpage content.
