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

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders.

Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage are now discovering that Chrome is installing a 4GB weights. bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI features are enabled. The weights.