AFAIK Apple and MS auto-download local models.

The former has made a big deal about local inference and marketed that as an OS level feature.

You can also…turn it off.

Chrome silently elected people into it _and_ downloaded the model without asking because they decided that’s something they (chrome) fancied doing.

The difference should be pretty obvious.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. This is how every *good local option works.