Why Chrome may have quietly downloaded a 4GB file to your PC - and how to get rid of it
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Google Chrome is downloading a 4GB file (weights.bin) into user profiles when the On-device AI setting is enabled; the file contains the Gemini Nano on-device LLM weights. The article says the file is harmless and required for offline/faster AI functionality, while raising user concerns about the silent download and its large disk usage; deleting the file only triggers Chrome to re-download it unless On-device AI is turned off.
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