In 2024, Google Chrome expanded its built-in AI initiative by introducing APIs and browser features that enable the local execution of AI models. As part of this shift, Chrome began integrating ...

Frustrations over a file point to a larger issue with Chrome ...

Google Chrome automatically downloads an AI model to support features such as scam detection and tab organization. Here's how ...

Google Chrome VP and GM Parisa Tabriz has responded to backlash over Chrome's practice of silently downloading a 4GB Gemini ...

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

You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been ...

Chrome installs a 3- to 4GB file called weights.bin on desktop. It's for local AI through Gemini Nano — and you can delete it ...

If you've paid any attention to Google lately, you know that it wants us using its AI tools. So much so that Chrome ...

You can nix Chrome's 4GB local AI model in just a few clicks, but you'll lose some functionality in the process.