Chrome Is Silently Installing a 4GB AI Model on Your PC—Here’s How to Stop It

Chrome Is Silently Installing a 4GB AI Model on Your Computer – and It Keeps Coming Back If you use Chrome, you may have recently noticed your browser using more disk space than usual. According to multiple reports, Google has started automatically downloading a large on-device AI model (roughly 4 GB) onto users’ computers without asking for permission. And if you try to delete it, it often returns. ...

May 8, 2026 · 4 min · BriefArc Desk