Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)

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Microsoft previewed Aion-1.0-Instruct and new on-device Edge AI APIs for language detection, translation, and local inference.

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<a href="https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/336953/build-2026-microsoft-brings-more-on-device-ai-to-edge"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260602/i43.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260602/p43#a260602p43" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Paul Thurrott / <a href="http://www.thurrott.com/">Thurrott</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/336953/build-2026-microsoft-brings-more-on-device-ai-to-edge">Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Tied to the earlier Windows 11 developer news, Microsoft is also bringing more local AI capabilities to its Edge web browser too.</p>