How Transformers.js Works: AI Models in JavaScript, Explained

00:00 Intro 01:16 Machine Learning 03:11 ONNX 04:04 Quantization 05:15 The core Library 06:56 Pipeline API 10:26 Pipe 13:06 Wrap-up Transformers.js brings state-of-the-art machine learning to JavaScriprt. In this intro, I explain the mental model behind Transformers.js: tensors, neural networks, ONNX, quantization, model loading, preprocessing, postprocessing, and the pipeline() API. We also look at what happens under the hood for text-generation and depth-estimation, and why one high-level API can support many different AI tasks. Links: Full documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/index GitHub: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js Demos in this video: https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/GPT-OSS-WebGPU https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-webgpu https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/remove-background-webgpu