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After spending a few years collecting new AI features on Edge , Microsoft is planning on giving users the option to completely turn all of them off. A new On-device AI setting has appeared in Edge Canary under Settings > Copilot and AI, allowing users to control whether Microsoft’s browser can use AI models running locally on their PC. Windows Report spotted the setting in the latest preview build.

Microsoft has stated that when on-device AI is enabled, Edge can use local AI models for support features. turn it off and those features may stop working. Just one thing you have to remember, Edge doesn’t actually tell you what those features are.

Windows Report

A welcome switch with a big catch

Microsoft already has several experimental local-AI systems inside Edge. Its Prompt API lets websites and extensions interact with Edge’s built-in language model for tasks including summarization, classification, and rewriting.…