Google has announced that WebGPU, an API that gives web apps access to more graphics card capabilities, will be enabled by default in Chrome 113, which releases in about three weeks. WebGPU is available on Windows PCs with Direct3D 12 support, macOS, and ChromeOS devices with Vulkan support.
According to the blog post, WebGPU will allow developers to achieve the same level of graphics today with far less code, delivering “more than 3x improvements in machine learning model inference.” The last one really kicks in — machine learning performance improvements were interesting in 2021 when this feature was experimentally added to Chrome, but now in the era of generative AI and large language models Because there are more benefits. Services like Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing don’t really take advantage of local hardware, but there’s plenty of room for cool machine learning applications.
Of course, you can also enable developers to create great-looking games for your browser.Babylon.js has a very impressive demo that you can run if you’re using Chrome beta. I have.
Google said this month’s release “will serve as a building block for future updates and enhancements”, and will include “more advanced graphics capabilities” and “deeper access to shader cores” in the future. promise and improve how you develop content that actually performs. WebGPU.
The API has been in development for quite some time. It was designed in 2017 and has been under development ever since. It’s also not a Chrome-only standard. In the future, it will also be available for Firefox and Safari. Google says it’s working to extend its implementation to support more operating systems, including Linux and Android.
In other Chrome news, Google announced Wednesday that it will try to deliver future releases of the browser more quickly. Stable releases won’t come out any sooner (in fact, the release schedule has been pushed back by a week), but Google later “feature-frozen” them until the developers stopped adding new stuff. We plan to shorten the time for When the build and the general public get it. This makes the development process smoother.
