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I don't think the parent meant commercial use-cases, more like what can you actually do? Or what is a concrete use-case that you are testing it for? Or what is one goal for it to do in the future?

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A well-documented online platform for enabling machine learning research is one use case that should have obvious interest. I think Tensorflow.js should work pretty well at this point, and I've heard of new-fangled APIs such as WebGPU that could start being put to good use.

One thing that's fascinated me for a while has been the concept of rolling your own hardware that can plug directly into the web. (I know Chrome has had WebUSB and WebBluetooth enabled for some years now.)

I don't see how any of these use-cases gain any clear benefit over using them through a system like this over just doing it normally. Honestly, I cannot imagine using a niche system like this for researching much of anything will do anything other than just cause needless friction.

And "plug directly into the web" how exactly? Elaborate. Do you mean using them locally, externally, magically? Something else?

The project seems decently interesting, but like a lot of other people, I'm seeing a lot of text but not really clear answers to very valid questions.

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