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Android AICore is a background service that manages machine learning models stored on your phone. It helps run features like scam detection, audio transcription, Pixel Screenshots, and other similar tools. You can turn it off and get some space back, but that means taking away the AI features your phone was sold with, which is a big part of the pitch now. Manufacturers are pushing AI much harder than any meaningful hardware upgrades lately. Google recently updated its support documentation to explain why AICore can balloon. When the system updates a local model, AICore keeps both old and new v
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