WebGPU: Unleashing Desktop Graphics in the Browser

The End of WebGL

WebGL was a wrapper for OpenGL ES 2.0, an API from the mid-2000s. WebGPU is a modern API designed from the ground up to map directly to Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX 12. It allows for compute shaders, which means the browser can now perform massive parallel calculations (like training small neural networks) natively on the GPU.