This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.
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Lady Talia
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Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
2026-05-05T12:26:35.072Z