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by lxgr 267 days ago
Firefox does several other things with AI too, and many of them locally, e.g. suggesting tab group names, suggesting other tabs to add to existing groups, auto-generating alt texts for images pasted into edited PDFs – each supported by a dedicated local model!

You can see which ones your Firefox installation has already fetched and their purpose on about:addons.

More about this here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models

On top of that, current mobile versions (and weirdly enough only mobile versions) can now also summarize articles using Apple Intelligence (where available) or Mozilla-hosted remote inference: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/