Chrome Ships On-Device Gemini Nano, and Your Code Still Needs a Fallback

The Chrome Prompt API gives any page direct access to Gemini Nano running on the user's machine: no API key, no per-token bill, no network round trip. What every demo skips is the fallback path, because the on-device model fails open and maybe 60% of your users qualify on hardware.

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Chrome Ships On-Device Gemini Nano, and Your Code Still Needs a Fallback

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