Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

The local model powers the features nobody uses. The cloud model powers the feature everyone sees. You pay 4GB for the illusion of privacy.

And Claude is hogging 12G for Cowork which I don’t want.

4GB should be nothing.

It's crazy to me how consumer computer storage has stalled out at the 2010 level for so long. And if anything we're going backwards now in 2026. We should be having many TBs in our home computers and laptops. Instead most users are still stuck with 256GB and trying to tetris around to fit even their average amount of small data.

Positive reinforcement anyone :) Anyway to me, 4G seems a bit lite for AI.

I always avoided Chrome as much as possible, now I have a real reason to do so.

I wonder if Chromium-based browsers is or will do the same?

Did anyone extract these weights so we can run Gemini Nano locally? Is it better than Gemma 4?

Annoying, but are the kind of people still using Chrome really that discerning about what's going on behind the scenes on their device?

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