Posted 5/8/2026 13:09 (#11640823) Subject: Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
Tipton, KS
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
Google Chrome will steal 4 GB of disk space from your computer for its local large language model unless you opted out.
It's called weights.bin and it's stored in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel. What's more, if you track down the file and delete it, Chrome will download a fresh copy and reinstate it.
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
