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

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features
30•birdculture•1h ago

Comments

Holacc•1h ago
The local model powers the features nobody uses. The cloud model powers the feature everyone sees. You pay 4GB for the illusion of privacy.
superkuh•1h ago
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.

goalieca•1h ago
Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.
kn100•38m ago
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.
superkuh•34m ago
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.
zb3•1h ago
Did anyone extract these weights so we can run Gemini Nano locally? Is it better than Gemma 4?
add-sub-mul-div•1h ago
Annoying, but are the kind of people still using Chrome really that discerning about what's going on behind the scenes on their device?
llbbdd•14m ago
No they're too busy working to be pearl clutching about 4gb in 2026
jmclnx•51m ago
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?

Weryj•30m ago
And Claude is hogging 12G for Cowork which I don’t want.
thunderbong•26m ago
From 5 days ago, 1138 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219

iamkrazy•16m ago
First IE, now Chrome. What gets into these companies heads once they get biggest market share? And the people working for these companies. How do you sleep at night bro?

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

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features
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