Edge

On Monday, July 29, local time, Microsoft announced a new Copilot Mode (Experimental Mode, currently Windows/Mac only) for the Edge browser, which Nadella said "is the first step in reinventing our browser for the AI era". Similar to Perplexity's Comet browser, Microsoft has integrated an AI intelligence into the Edge browser. When this mode is turned on, Edge activates a new AI feature: instead of passively waiting for a user to click a button, it predicts what the user will do...

May 20, 2012 - At Microsoft's Build 2025 conference today, Microsoft announced a major update: Web developers will soon be able to utilize device-side artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the Edge browser. Through the newly launched Application Programming Interface (API), developers can integrate Microsoft's Phi-4-mini model into their web apps to provide a smarter, more convenient interactive experience for users. According to 1AI, Phi-4-mini is a small device-side Microsoft launched in February...

On May 19th, blogger Leopeva64 posted on X on the 17th that he had discovered that there are several new feature flags related to "Phi mini" in Edge Canary 138.0.3323.0 or newer. One of the features, called "Prompt API for Phi mini," lets the browser call the built-in Phi-mini model to perform generative AI-related tasks. Phi-4 is a small language model that requires less computing power...

April 17, 2011 - Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence CEO Mustafa Suleiman announced today on Bluesky that Copilot Vision, Microsoft's AI assistant feature that interprets what's on the screen and helps users use apps, is now available free of charge for Edge browser. apps. According to 1AI, "Copilot Vision" is a "voice-based experience" that allows users to interact with it through voice commands. Suleiman said that when users enable the feature, "Copilot Visio...

December 13, 2012 - Microsoft appears to be testing a new feature called Scareware Blocker with the Edge browser, according to an early morning X post from longtime browser feature digger Leopeva64. The officially unannounced feature is currently only available in the Edge browser's "Privacy, Search & Services" settings, and only exists in an unreleased beta version. According to its brief description, the feature could help Microsoft detect potential tech scams through AI...

Microsoft announced at its Build conference that Microsoft Edge browser will soon launch a new feature that allows users to translate videos in real time while watching YouTube and other videos. This new AI feature will support multiple languages and will apply to videos on multiple websites such as YouTube, Reuters, CNBC News, Bloomberg, Money Control, LinkedIn and Coursera. The real-time translation function will be completed on the user's device and will not leave the user's device or be processed in the cloud to…