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Product blog
Product updates, field guides, and field notes—each with links to docs and the hub where relevant. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.
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ReadField guide · Jun 7, 2026
Why on-device AI is private by design
The difference between “we promise not to look” and “the data physically cannot leave.”
- Structural, not policy
- No upload, no log
- The model comes to you
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ReadField guide · Jun 7, 2026
What runs on your device vs in the cloud
A practical guide to telling on-device AI from cloud AI, and what each implies.
- On-device: many tasks
- Cloud: huge models
- How to tell
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ReadField guide · Jun 7, 2026
How AI runs in your browser (WebGPU and WebAssembly, explained)
A plain-language explainer of the browser tech that makes on-device AI fast enough to use.
- WebGPU uses your GPU
- WASM is the fallback
- No install needed
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ReadField guide · Jun 7, 2026
The privacy cost of free AI tools
What "free" can really mean when your images or audio are uploaded to a server.
- Uploads = exposure
- Read the terms
- Free + private is possible
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ReadField guide · Jun 7, 2026
Do browser AI tools work offline?
How on-device AI tools keep working without a connection, and what still needs the network.
- Works after first load
- PWA + cached model
- No connection needed
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ReadField guide · Jun 1, 2026
What CLIP zero-shot tagging does on your device
A plain explanation of CLIP zero-shot tagging, confidence scoring, and similarity search — and what it means that they run locally on your images.
- Real CLIP, not keyword guessing
- Zero-shot: no training step
- Cosine similarity finds related images
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ReadField guide · May 30, 2026
Bring your own ONNX model: running your own weights in the browser
The logical end state of on-device AI — if the computation happens on your machine, the model does not have to be ours. How BYO-ONNX works and why it exists.
- Host your own ONNX at a URL
- WebGPU primary, WASM fallback
- Seven swappable capabilities
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ReadField guide · May 27, 2026
Is my data safe with browser AI tools? A plain-English audit
A practical, non-technical guide to whether your data is safe with browser-based AI tools — the upload-versus-on-device distinction, what each model protects, and a checklist for auditing any tool.
- On-device = files never uploaded
- Check upload vs local
- Free is not the same as private
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