AI

Ternlight ships a 7 MB embedding model that runs in the browser

2026-07-07 digest discussion

  • Category: AI
  • Status: discussion
  • Sources: demo, HN discussion
  • Summary: Ternlight, posted to Hacker News on 2026-07-07 (148 points), is a roughly 7 MB text-embedding model that runs client-side in the browser through WebAssembly, with a live demo. Details beyond the demo and size claim are not independently verified.
  • Why it matters: A small embedding model that runs entirely in the browser removes a server round trip for on-device semantic search and retrieval prototypes.

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