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Details: Written by CNET Reviews; Category: Reviews; Published: 15 May 2026; Created: 15 May 2026; Last Updated: 15 May 2026

You didn't install it. You weren't asked. You may not have even known it was there. But if you use Google Chrome on a desktop computer, there's a reasonable chance that a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano is sitting on your hard drive right now, placed there automatically by Chrome sometime between late April…

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