Published: September 22, 2025
Web developers can now use Chrome's built-in AI to bring client-side AI capabilities and browser-hosted models to Chromebook Plus device users, starting with ChromeOS 141. With this expansion, you can reach a broader audience with powerful, private, and low-latency AI features in your web applications and extensions. Read more about Chromebook Plus devices and their hardware specifications.
The built-in AI APIs enable you to integrate AI tasks directly into your web experiences, with the processing happening locally on your users' devices. This was already available on Chrome for desktop platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), and we're excited to extend this capability to the ChromeOS ecosystem on Chromebook Plus devices.
Explore the following built-in AI APIs:
- Summarizer API
- Writer API
- Rewriter API
- Proofreader API
- Prompt API
- Language Detector API
- Translator API (coming soon)
Check the API statuses to sign up for relevant origin trials and other prerequisites.
Additionally, this update includes AI-powered scam protection, bringing an additional layer of security to ChromeOS users have opted into the enhanced protection mode of Safe Browsing. This is available on Chromebook Plus devices, which meet the necessary hardware specifications to run built-in models effectively.
Get started with built-in AI
We encourage you to get started building AI features in web applications for Chromebook Plus users.
If you try built-in AI and have feedback, we'd love to hear it.
- Discover all of the built-in AI APIs.
- Join the Early Preview Program for an early look at new APIs and access to our mailing list.
- If you have feedback on the Chromebook Plus implementation, file a Chromium bug.
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