Microsoft recently introduced a registry setting in Windows 11 to block Google Chrome’s automatic 4GB AI model download.
If you use Google Chrome on your computer, the browser has silently installed an on-device AI model without your knowledge.
We tested our own computers to see if the model was present.
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Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to eligible devices, and downloads it again if deleted.
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You can nix Chrome's 4GB local AI model in just a few clicks, but you'll lose some functionality in the process.
Google Chrome may be consuming more space than expected due to an automatic download of a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano.