You can try the model here: https://chromeai.org/ -> Press the left edit button to start a new context.

It's free, multi-language, well tested, respecting privacy (no cloud needed), nothing extra to install. Quite nice actually.

Like what iPhones do, and everybody is ok with it. Chrome is not just a browser, it's a Window (ahem) to the web, almost an operating system considering the wide scope.

Average game is 80 GB, Call of Duty 200 GB+, etc

It's a quite oriented title:

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

The same news can be read as:

Amazing, Chrome now includes a fully offline AI so you don't have to send your secrets to ChatGPT

A proper journalist would have found the middle ground, explained that this is by default, can be made optional and to raise the issue to Google as "Cons: this uses bandwidth and user is not aware of it".