Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
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#2The local model powers the features nobody uses. The cloud model powers the feature everyone sees. You pay 4GB for the illusion of privacy.
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#34GB 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.
Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#4Did anyone extract these weights so we can run Gemini Nano locally? Is it better than Gemma 4?
Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#54GB 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.
Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.
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#6Annoying, 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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#8Positive 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?
Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#94GB 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.
I reckon until the recent ai-gobbles-everything-up phenomena, this was mainly an Apple problem. Even fairly budget PCs come with at least 1tb of storage. Considering much beyond 2tb NAND gets scary pricing wise, I'm not that surprised we don't see much beyond that.
Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#104GB 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.
I reckon until the recent ai-gobbles-everything-up phenomena, this was mainly an Apple problem. Even fairly budget PCs come with at least 1tb of storage. Considering much beyond 2tb NAND gets scary pricing wise, I'm not that surprised we don't see much beyond that.
Yes, but I don't think it was just Apple. The switch to charge trap based SSD storage set all pre-built consumer computers back a full decade in terms of storage size. We were only just getting back beyond 2010 levels when the megacorps started buying up all the flash fab capacity and now even most of the HDD plates are going to enterprise.