What is the default BrowserOS model? Is it local, and if so, what inferencing server are you using?
The default model is Gemini. You can bring your own API keys and change the default to any model you local. Or better run model locally using Ollama and use that!
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#32So you rebuild your browser on every Chromium release? Because that's the risk: often changes go into Chromium with very innocent looking commit messages than are released from embargo 90 days later in their CVE reference
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#33> --- How we built? We patch Chromium's C++ source code with our changes, so we have the same security as Google Chrome. We also have an auto-updater for security patches and regular updates. So you rebuild your browser on every Chromium release? Because that's the risk: often changes go into Chromium with very innocent looking commit messages than are released from embargo 90 days later in their CVE reference
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#34I would prefer this as a browser extension, not as its own browser application.
There are plenty of zero day exploit patches that Google immediately rolls out and not to mention all the other features that Google doesn't push to Chromium. I wouldn't trust a random open source project for my day-to-day browser.
Check out rtrvr.ai for a working implementation, we are an AI Web Agent browser extension that meets you where your workflows already are.
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#35I would prefer this as a browser extension, not as its own browser application.
We would've preferred to build this as browser extension too. But we strongly believe that for building a good agent co-pilot we need bunch of changes at Chromium C++ code level. For example, chromium has a accessibility tree for every website, but doesn't expose it as an API to chrome extension. Having access to accessibility tree would greatly improve agent execution. We are also building bunch of changes in C++ fo…
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#37Do you have any benchmarks to share like Halluminate's Web Bench?
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#39(Will you ever make a better FydeOS, or if you're laser-focused, perhaps be open to sharing some with them, so they could?)