diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/isomorphic/llm.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/isomorphic/llm.ts
index fb2434d94c..0a5647f4cb 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/isomorphic/llm.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/isomorphic/llm.ts
@@ -26,21 +26,68 @@ export interface LLM {
   chatCompletion(messages: LLMMessage[], signal: AbortSignal): AsyncGenerator<string>;
 }
 
-async function *parseSSE(body: Response['body']): AsyncGenerator<string> {
-  const reader = body!.pipeThrough(new TextDecoderStream()).getReader();
+// https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html#parsing-an-event-stream
+async function *parseSSE(body: NonNullable<Response['body']>): AsyncGenerator<{ type: string, data: string, id: string }> {
+  const reader = body.pipeThrough(new TextDecoderStream()).getReader();
   let buffer = '';
+
+  let lastEventId = '';
+  let type: string = '';
+  let data = '';
+
   while (true) {
     const { value, done } = await reader.read();
     if (done)
       break;
     buffer += value;
-    const events = buffer.split('\n\n');
-    buffer = events.pop()!;
-    for (const event of events) {
-      const contentStart = event.indexOf('data: ');
-      if (contentStart === -1)
+    const lines = buffer.split('\n');
+    buffer = lines.pop()!; // last line is either empty or incomplete
+
+    for (const line of lines) {
+      if (line.length === 0) {
+        if (data === '') {
+          data = '';
+          type = '';
+          continue;
+        }
+
+        if (data[data.length - 1] === '\n')
+          data = data.substring(0, data.length - 1);
+
+        const event = { type: type || 'message', data, id: lastEventId };
+        type = '';
+        data = '';
+
+        yield event;
+      }
+      if (line[0] === ':')
         continue;
-      yield event.substring(contentStart + 'data: '.length);
+
+      let name = '';
+      let value = '';
+      const colon = line.indexOf(':');
+      if (colon === -1) {
+        name = line;
+      } else {
+        name = line.substring(0, colon);
+        value = line[colon + 1] === ' ' ? line.substring(colon + 2) : line.substring(colon + 1);
+      }
+
+      switch (name) {
+        case 'event':
+          type = value;
+          break;
+        case 'data':
+          data += value + '\n';
+          break;
+        case 'id':
+          lastEventId = value;
+          break;
+        case 'retry':
+        default:
+          // not implemented
+          break;
+      }
     }
   }
 }
@@ -68,10 +115,8 @@ export class OpenAI implements LLM {
     if (response.status !== 200 || !response.body)
       throw new Error('Failed to chat with OpenAI, unexpected status: ' + response.status + await response.text());
 
-    for await (const eventString of parseSSE(response.body)) {
-      if (eventString === '[DONE]')
-        break;
-      const event = JSON.parse(eventString);
+    for await (const sseEvent of parseSSE(response.body)) {
+      const event = JSON.parse(sseEvent.data);
       if (event.object === 'chat.completion.chunk') {
         if (event.choices[0].finish_reason)
           break;
@@ -104,8 +149,8 @@ export class Anthropic implements LLM {
     if (response.status !== 200 || !response.body)
       throw new Error('Failed to chat with Anthropic, unexpected status: ' + response.status + await response.text());
 
-    for await (const eventString of parseSSE(response.body)) {
-      const event = JSON.parse(eventString);
+    for await (const sseEvent of parseSSE(response.body)) {
+      const event = JSON.parse(sseEvent.data);
       if (event.type  === 'content_block_delta')
         yield event.delta.text;
     }