Dossier
Grace Hopper
Coverage of Grace Hopper in the Nexus archive.
- Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
Google Chrome installs a 4 GB local large language model on users' computers without consent, taking up disk space and potentially contributing to climate costs. The model, called Gemini Nano, can be disabled through Chrome's flags or enterprise policies. Users who didn't opt out can find instructions to remove the model.