Comment by simonw
9 days ago
I hadn't realized WebGPU was already available on macOS in the Firefox Nightlies!
I just installed the Mac nightly from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/ and now this demo works: https://huggingface.co/spaces/reach-vb/github-issue-generato...
It runs the SmolLM2 model compiled to WebAssembly for structured data extraction. I previously thought that demo only worked in Chrome.
(If I try it in regular Firefox for Mac I get "Error: WebGPU is not supported in your current environment, but it is necessary to run the WebLLM engine.")
Member of Firefox's WebGPU team here. This is expected. Stable support for macOS is something we hope to ship soon! From the post:
> Although Firefox 141 enables WebGPU only on Windows, we plan to ship WebGPU on Mac and Linux in the coming months, and finally on Android.