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TekMol • yesterday at 3:12 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

This seems to be the demo:

https://chat.webllm.ai/

I am getting:

    WebGPUNotAvailableError: WebGPU is not supported in
    your current environment, but it is necessary to
    run the WebLLM engine.
On both, FireFox and Chromium on Linux.

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noir_lord • yesterday at 8:50 PM

For firefox you may need to enable `dom.webgpu.enabled` in `about:config`

It's on by default on Windows iirc - it's considered a potential security risk on Linux by Mozilla, so they ship it but it's turned off and it's up to the user to decide.

I think the reasoning is just because of how varied graphics drivers/stacks are on Linux compared to Windows/OSX and the attack surface been larger.

toto007 • yesterday at 3:19 PM

You can enable WebGPU support in Google Chrome by turning on hardware acceleration and activating the WebGPU flag. It Works.