Nico Martin is a Machine Learning Engineer with focus on WebML at 🤗 Hugging Face and a Google Developer Expert in AI and Web Technologies from Switzerland.
At Hugging Face, he works on Transformers.js, the JavaScript library that runs state-of-the-art AI models directly in the browser, used by millions of developers every week. His work explores what becomes possible when WebGPU, modern browser APIs, and on-device AI come together, from private and offline inference to autonomous agents and browser-controlled hardware.
After more than a decade of building for the web, Nico knows both what the platform can do and where it gets weird. Expect technical depth, honest production trade-offs, and live demos that run entirely in the browser and occasionally involve robots.
Everyone's talking about generative AI. But machine learning is so much more than chatbots... and a surprising amount of it runs directly in the browser, on ordinary consumer hardware. Text embeddings for semantic search, real-time speech recognition, image tasks like background removal: small open models, often just a few megabytes, powered by tools like Transformers.js and WebGPU. No cloud subscription, no API key, no gigabyte downloads. In this talk, we'll explore the tasks that already work on the hardware your users own. Live, fully offline, and ready for production. Effective? Absolutely. Boring? Let's find out.
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