Building Jam: An Internal Demo with Chrome’s Built-in AI (Ep. 17)

This week we’re joined by Rui and Oskar, two Jam engineers leading our internal development of AI features. Oskar shares our latest demo with Chrome's built-in AI and what it means for anyone building in the browser.

In this episode:

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:25 What is Chrome’s Built-in AI?
• 2:26 The tradeoffs between local and external LLMs
• 4:54 Oskar demos our early experiments with Gemini Nano
• 9:32 Implications for what developers will build
• 11:58 Why progress with AI is like a stepwise function
• 14:09 How LLMs will enable more personalization & accessibility
• 16:54 The source of differentiation
• 20:54 Why AI raises the bar for all software development

Want to hear more about Jam engineering? Check out these other episodes:

• What it's Like Joining Jam Engineering with Jam engineers Max Yankov and Aidan Nulman
• Developing Jam AI with Jam engineer Rui Conti
• The Eng Team is Growing with Jam's head of engineering Tony Stuck

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