{
  "id": 3580540,
  "title": "Run AI in the Browser: Client-Side Background Removal and Feature Extraction with ONNX Runtime Web",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/run-ai-in-the-browser-client-side-background-removal-and-feature",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T20:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/programmingcentral/run-ai-in-the-browser-client-side-background-removal-and-feature-extraction-with-onnx-runtime-web-51p4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For years, heavy computational tasks like computer vision, semantic segmentation, and deep feature extraction were strictly locked behind powerful backend server clusters equipped with expensive GPU arrays. When a user uploaded an image for background removal or semantic profiling, the browser acted merely as a thin presentation layer. It captured pixels, compressed them into JPEGs, and shipped…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}