alt Hacker NewsThose two (and more) exist in chrome://flags in Chrome 147. I'm disabling them now, with the expectation that will prevent the new default.
One option I'm leaving as default is "Use LiteRT-LM runtime for on-device model service inference." Any comment on that?
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scriptsmith • today at 8:46 AM
Those flags will exist already, but will default to enabled in 148.
That other flag is for using a different open-source inference engine to the (from what I can tell) closed-source one that's used by default.
dpoloncsak • today at 1:56 PM
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I'm on Chrome 147 too and disabled:
"optimization-guide-on-device-model"
- Enables optimization guide on device
"prompt-api-for-gemini-nano"
- Prompt API for Gemini Nano
- Prompt API for Gemini Nano with Multimodal Input
and deleted weights.bin and the 2025.x folder in "OptGuideOnDeviceModel"
Will report if Chrome 148 downloads the model again.