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		corbindavenport 10 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just the Browser The local translation in Firefox is an NMT model, not an LLM: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models?tab=r... It's much more efficient on system resources than the larger LLMs downloaded by browsers for other tasks.

Vinnl 6 hours ago | [–]

AFAIK the model for tab group suggestions is about the same size? (And I think that model is/can be used for other features as well?)

alturp 9 hours ago | | [–]

Thanks for clarification!

roywiggins 10 hours ago | [–]

It's still a transformer architecture though, right?

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