The Browser That Brought Its Own AI

Not in the Brief, Episode 01 Open chrome://on-device-internals in a new tab. If your machine qualifies, you will see a multi-gigabyte language model that Chrome has downloaded onto your disk, listed with a version number and a file size. Any website you visit can call this model through an API in JavaScript. There is no permission prompt. There never was. This is the first episode of Not in the Brief : a series on the documented mechanics of software that has been added to your machine without y