alt.hn

1/20/2026 at 8:45:56 PM

Show HN: On-device browser agent (Qwen) running locally in Chrome

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/on-device-browser-agent

by sanchitmonga22

1/21/2026 at 12:52:11 AM

This is pretty neat. How complex can the tasks be? I'm also impressed by the model's capability in the demo considering it's only a 3B model. Curious to see what a larger local model like gpt-oss-20b would be able to accomplish, hosted via a local API on, say, Ollama.

by youngermax

1/20/2026 at 11:00:28 PM

This looks cool and I am also impressed with the tiny Qwen models.

I wonder if there is a malicious use of this similar to how people did bitcoin mining in visitors browsers. Maybe someone will create a botnet of compute slaves to run 470B models in a distributed way ;)

by throwa356262

1/21/2026 at 9:50:11 AM

Super interesting! If small models are to get as better as they make them to be, maybe eventually you can have perplexity comet like browser agents running locally

by vedantagarwal

1/20/2026 at 8:49:02 PM

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by shubham2802

1/20/2026 at 11:35:44 PM

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