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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by z3t4 on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:45AM (#48024109)
Why is nobody building a paid for browser with built in search engine and LLM assistant? Should probably make it open source for transparency. And before anyone says you would build/compile it yourself if it was open source, those ppl are already running their self compiled tools and are not the target market.
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by FoxBJK on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @12:13PM (#48024520)
Who would pay for it when literally every other option has been free for a lifetime?
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by liminis on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @02:57PM (#48026900)
Isn't that essentially Dia? (Pro is 20USD/month.) https://www.diabrowser.com/

(I miss Arc, such a shame it only gets security/chromium updates now ...)

And I think Codex's desktop client has a built-in browser now? At least I've seen someone using something like that. Nevermind Atlas is a thing now too. https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/

(Tell me if I'm misunderstanding you?)

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