Google Chrome is silently downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model to your device without consent. Here's what it is, where it lives on your computer, and what you can do about it.The Latest Tech News, De ...

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

When I did that on my Mac, the weights.bin file disappeared immediately. Of course, turning Chrome’s local AI setting off nixed Chrome’s local AI functionality, including text suggestions and scam ...

According to Hanff, Chrome secretly stashes about 4GB of AI model files on Chrome users’ devices (though it should be noted that many users have been unable to find the file). T ...

Google Chrome now lets you delete the local AI models that power the "Enhanced Protection" feature, which was upgraded with AI capabilities last year. Enhanced protection has been in Chrome for a few ...

Google Chrome logo in the background with Gemini AI title in the foreground. - Thrive Studios ID/Shutterstock Resourceful users have discovered a file approximately 4 GB in size that Google silently ...

At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client, starting with Chrome ...

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: with a local AI model. That model ...