AI Studio is CPU-hungry

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While I am using AI Studio, I often have to wait for it to finish a task, so I do other things while waiting. But the thing I’ve noticed is that if I tell Gemini to do a long task and then try to view a YouTube video in a separate browser page (same browser: Chrome) but this is near-impossible as AI Studio claims a lot of CPU from the browser processes, thus my video keeps stuttering while I watch. That’s really annoying.
But watching YouTube videos in a different browser, watching NetFlix or doing other things still works fine. My ten cores have no problem with that. (The 64 GB of RAM and 4 TB of disk storage are also more than enough. And the Gigabit network should also be more than enough.)

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The screenshot tells how CPU-hungry AI Studio is. As a result, all other browser pages have to suffer…
This is part a problem of Google Chrome, as it could use more of my processors. Chrome is at 10% CPU usage, which makes sense as it only uses one CPU for all the pages, apparently.
Should we tell the Chrome developers to improve this, or should AI Studio be improved instead? :slight_smile:

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Hi @Katje ,

Thank you for your feedback. Your feedback is invaluable as we work to continuously improve the AI Studio experience.

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I have the same problem. It is not browser because I use Safari. It IS Google AI Studio problem.

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I tend to get similar results. CPU usage is going through the roof because AI Studio is hungry. But this only affects the browser in my case. All other applications barely notice it. If I use Chrome for AI Studio and Microsoft Edge for YouTube videos then I have no problem. But using Chrome for AI Studio and YouTube basically stops the YT playback.

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Yes, exactly the same. Even other tabs of Safari are still working normally, except the AIStudio tab.

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