Not on my machine lol.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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It's roughly twice the size of the base app, if it's the same as Edge, which on my machine is 1.82GB. It's shady as hell, but "massive" is doing a lot of lifting in this headline.
People are shocked when the bad boyfriend (google) that people warned them about, do highly unethical things. That boyfriend only exists to use & abuse you, it has no other purpose anymore.
That "boyfriend" just makes money, he doesn't know or even care about your existence.
That boyfriend was once sweet, caring, quirky, and innovative once. He tried many things and was better than his older two brothers, the hip one who charged too much and the lame one that your parents were forced to deal with.
Somewhere along the way, he forgot his roots and became Jennifer Lopez.
His name is Jennifer Lopez, he likes burritos, and tacos
Bloatware, in my Google Chrome!?
Well I'm glad Google decided to bite the bullet and face the immense, Biblical backlash. So that Mozilla Corporation has a few new thoughts to ponder on.
What if you keep the file around but write to it and zero size it? Does chrome still download the file again?
No it isn’t. Because I don’t run anything from Google.
Let me guess, you run Linux?
I use Arch btw
My arch system runs an arch VM.
I use arch btw
I wonder if they do it on phones as well. Not everyone has a 256GB+ device, and 4GB would be a significant chunk on even that.
On android phones I believe this is called Gemini Nano which is part of the Gemini app for Android and the android AIcore app. The AI core app supposedly eats up like 4-12GB of storage. I believe it's a system app that you can't uninstall.
Might be worth a look at your phone apps especially if you have a pixel phone.
What little I read about this it seems to only be on desktop. For now.
Some suit in the C Suite is having a wet dream though imagining the not so far off future where they can run shit like this on your phone.
What's wrong with this? Isn't it preferable to run the LLM locally for privacy reasons? Plus googles open weight models are pretty good for what they are.
It downloads the 4GB local model and then doesn't use it. Instead chrome LLM usage is routed through their online LLM service instead.
Chrome’s most recent release, version 147, now includes an AI Mode pill in the omnibox, however, this routes queries to cloud-based AI servers. The local model is not used by that AI, instead it powers features like “Help me write”.
They don’t tell you they are doing it, for one.
Even though this 4GB is local, the “omnibox” at the top that also uses Gemini shit doesn’t use this 4GB and still goes to the web to determine the slop it wants to provide.