How to Enable AI Feature Flags in Chrome
Prerequisites: You must be using Chrome version 133.0.6848.0
or higher.
You can check your version at chrome://version
Enable On-Device Model Flag
This flag is necessary to enable so chrome can download Google's Gemini model to run directly in your browser
Enable this core feature flag and set to ("Enabled BypassPerfRequirement"):
chrome://flags/#optimization-guide-on-device-model
Enable Features General AI Flags
Activate the following feature flags: (activate all for access to the full set of features)
- General:
chrome://flags/#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano
- Summarization:
chrome://flags/#summarization-api-for-gemini-nano
- Writing:
chrome://flags/#writer-api-for-gemini-nano
- Rewriting:
chrome://flags/#rewriter-api-for-gemini-nano
- General:
Enable Language Features Flags
Activate these language-related feature flags:
- Language Detection:
chrome://flags/#language-detection-api
- Translation ("Enabled without language pack limit"):
chrome://flags/#translation-api
- Language Detection:
Restart Chrome
Click the "Relaunch" button that appears at the bottom of the screen to apply changes
Note: These features are experimental and may not be stable. Enable at your own risk.
After restarting, check if the AI features are available:
Install AI Components
Wait for Chrome to download and install the necessary AI components. This may take a few minutes.
Install Translation Languages
You can install translation languages in one of two ways:
- Visit the translation internals page:
chrome://on-device-translation-internals
- Or simply attempt to translate text in a new language - Chrome will automatically download the required language pack but you probably need some time to download.
- Visit the translation internals page: