CNET

Did Chrome Just Install a Massive AI Model on Your Device Without Telling You? Yes, Probably

A 4GB file called weights.bin may be sitting on your hard drive right now, put there by Chrome without your knowledge.

Google Chrome may have silently installed 4GB AI model on your computer. Here's how to check

We tested our own computers to see if the model was present.

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

Google Chrome will steal 4 GB of disk space from your computer for its local large language model unless you opted out. It's ...

Why Chrome may have quietly downloaded a 4GB file to your PC - and how to get rid of it

The file, which appears to be related to Google's on-device AI model, is harmless enough. Here's why some users may still be ...
9to5Google

Google Chrome takes up 4GB of storage on your computer for AI, if you have space

Google first announced Gemini Nano would be coming to Chrome in 2024. The 4GB of storage can be found in the ...

Chrome’s AI features can take up to 4GB of space on your computer

Google Chrome can automatically download a local AI model that takes up to 4 gigabytes of hard drive space on a computer when ...

Google Chrome secretly installed a 4GB Gemini AI model on your computer: here's what we know

Google Chrome may be consuming more space than expected due to an automatic download of a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano.