Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI model. Here’s how to remove it

Google’s Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it’s crowding our PC drives in a new way: ...
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Chrome Is Quietly Installing a 4GB AI Model on Your Computer—And Putting It Back If You Delete It

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to eligible devices, and downloads it again if deleted.

Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns

Even if you aren’t using Google Gemini, it might be using your device. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as ...

Google Chrome's 4GB AI model re-downloads automatically if deleted

Google has been silently downloading "weights.bin" for its on-device Gemini Nano AI model inside the Chrome web browser.
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Google May Have Installed Its 4GB AI Model for Chrome Without Your Knowledge

Google has reportedly installed a new AI model for Chrome which takes up 4GB in a PC, and the company may have done it with ...
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Google Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model on PC Without User Consent

Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI Model on desktop systems without user consent. Learn how to find and delete it to ...
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Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices

Google Chrome is reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking, Alexander ...
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Why Google’s New Gemma 4 AI is a Game-Changer for Your Laptop

Google Gemma 4 introduces a new way to run AI models directly on your personal devices, emphasizing privacy, offline functionality and accessibility. Unlike cloud-based systems, this local-first ...