LG’s lightweight Gram laptops get new Intel chips and offline AI features

LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device AI-powered features that spell beyond its current Gram laptops.

The 16-inch Gram Pro volition besides beryllium the archetypal Copilot Plus PC successful the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished arsenic the lone exemplary utilizing the Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch 2-in-1 usage Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors.

The LG Gram Pro volition beryllium disposable successful 17-inch and 16-inch models featuring 2,560 x 1,600 displays, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and up to 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSDs. The 16-inch Gram Pro and the 16-inch LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 volition person Intel Arc GPUs, portion the 17-inch Gram Pro volition alternatively diagnostic an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.

Gram Chat On-Device, which uses a “small connection exemplary derived from LG AI Research’s EXAONE ample connection model,” powers offline features, including Time Travel, which lets users rapidly revisit “web pages, documents, videos and audio files” they’ve precocious accessed. LG’s bundle is adding tools akin to Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, but fixed the trouble Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll person to hold and spot however it each measures up.

It besides mightiness marque those features disposable connected much PCs, but LG hasn’t specified which AI features volition beryllium disposable connected which laptops successful the caller Gram lineup.

Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and responds to inquiries utilizing “vast web-based datasets for elaborate and broad responses” portion integrating with calendar and email services. It requires an progressive net transportation and volition lone beryllium escaped for the archetypal year.

All of the caller Gram laptops besides enactment LG’s Gram Link 2.0, which streamlines papers and record sharing with different PCs and iOS oregon Android-based smartphones. It besides allows incoming telephone calls to beryllium answered done the Gram laptops, truthful you don’t person to swap headsets oregon Bluetooth headphones to different instrumentality temporarily.

LG volition besides introduce its entry-level Gram Book to the US marketplace adjacent year. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it features a 15.6-inch 60Hz afloat HD display, a 720p webcam, and configurations of up to 1TB of SSD retention and 16GB of DDR4 memory.