Thanks to the new WebGPU API coming to Google Chrome, it is now possible to run high-end games in the browser.

Google announced that WebGPU, an API that gives web applications greater access to your graphics card’s capabilities, will be enabled by default in Chrome 113, which will be released in about three weeks. WebGPU will be available on Windows computers that support Direct3D 12, macOS and ChromeOS devices that support Vulkan.

According to a blog post, Web GPU It provides “more than three times the advanced machine learning model inferences”, allowing developers to achieve the same level of graphics that they can currently achieve using much less code. This last one is very important. Machine learning performance improvements were interesting in 2021, when the feature was added experimentally to Chrome, but we are now in the era of productive AI and large language models, so this feature may be more effective.

While services like Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing don’t take full advantage of your local hardware, there’s plenty of room for great machine learning programs that do.

Of course, it can also allow developers to write better games for your browser. on Babylon.js If you’re using the Chrome beta, there’s a pretty impressive demo you can run.

Google says this month’s release “serves as a building block for future updates and enhancements,” promises “expanded graphics capabilities” and “deeper access to shader cores” in the future, and improvements to how you can actually enhance content running on the WebGPU. .