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		simonw 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 I hadn't realized WebGPU was already available on macOS in the Firefox Nightlies! I just installed the Mac nightly from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/ and now this demo works: https://huggingface.co/spaces/reach-vb/github-issue-generato... It runs the SmolLM2 model compiled to WebAssembly for structured data extraction. I previously thought that demo only worked in Chrome. (If I try it in regular Firefox for Mac I get "Error: WebGPU is not supported in your current environment, but it is necessary to run the WebLLM engine.")

erichdongubler 8 months ago [–]

Member of Firefox's WebGPU team here. This is expected. Stable support for macOS is something we hope to ship soon! From the post:

> Although Firefox 141 enables WebGPU only on Windows, we plan to ship WebGPU on Mac and Linux in the coming months, and finally on Android.

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