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

LG has introduced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Professional laptop computer lineup, including cloud-based and on-device AI-powered options that transcend its present Gram laptops.

The 16-inch Gram Professional may even be the primary Copilot Plus PC within the LG Gram lineup and is additional distinguished as the one mannequin utilizing the Intel Lunar Lake Core Extremely V-Sequence processors. The 17-inch Gram Professional and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Extremely H-Sequence processors.

The LG Gram Professional can be obtainable in 17-inch and 16-inch fashions that includes 2,560 x 1,600 shows, as much as 32GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence, and as much as 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSDs. The 16-inch Gram Professional and the 16-inch LG Gram Professional 2-in-1 could have Intel Arc GPUs, whereas the 17-inch Gram Professional will as a substitute function an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.

Gram Chat On-System, which makes use of a “small language mannequin derived from LG AI Analysis’s EXAONE giant language mannequin,” powers offline options, together with Time Journey, which lets customers shortly revisit “internet pages, paperwork, movies and audio information” they’ve just lately accessed. LG’s software program is including instruments much like Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, however given the difficulty Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll have to attend and see the way it all measures up.

It additionally would possibly make these options obtainable on extra PCs, however LG hasn’t specified which AI options can be obtainable on which laptops within the new Gram lineup.

Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and responds to inquiries utilizing “huge web-based datasets for detailed and complete responses” whereas integrating with calendar and e-mail companies. It requires an lively web connection and can solely be free for the primary 12 months.

All the new Gram laptops additionally assist LG’s Gram Hyperlink 2.0, which streamlines doc and file sharing with different PCs and iOS or Android-based smartphones. It additionally permits incoming cellphone calls to be answered by the Gram laptops, so that you don’t should swap headsets or Bluetooth headphones to a different machine quickly.

LG may even introduce its entry-level Gram Ebook to the US market subsequent 12 months. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it includes a 15.6-inch 60Hz full HD show, a 720p webcam, and configurations of as much as 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 reminiscence.