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

LG has announced additions to its ultra-light range of Gram and Gram Pro laptops, adding cloud-based and artificial intelligence-based features to the device that go beyond its lineup. current Gram laptops.

The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram line and is also designated as the only model with Intel. lunar lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors.

The LG Gram Pro will be available in 17-inch and 16-inch models with 2,560 x 1,600 screens, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and up to 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSD. The 16-inch Gram Pro and the 16-inch LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 will have Intel Arc GPUs, while the 17-inch Gram Pro will instead have an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.

Gram Chat On-Device, which uses a “small language model derived from LG AI Research’s EXAONE language model,” powers offline features, including Time Travel, which allows users to quickly revisit “web pages, documents, video and audio file” I recently accessed. LG’s software adds tools similar to Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligencebut given the problems Microsoft had with Recallwe’ll have to wait and see how it all measures up.

It could also make the features available on more PCs, but LG hasn’t specified which AI features will be available on which laptops in the new Gram line.

Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and answers questions using “vast web-based data sets for detailed and comprehensive answers” while integrating with calendar and email services. It requires an active Internet connection and will be free for the first year only.

All new Gram laptops also support LG’s Gram Link 2.0, which simplifies the sharing of documents and files with other iOS or Android-based PCs and smartphones. It also allows you to answer incoming phone calls through Gram laptops, so you don’t have to swap headphones or Bluetooth headsets to another device temporarily.

LG will be too present his first Gram Book to the US market next year. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it features a 15.6-inch 60Hz Full HD display, a 720p webcam, and configurations with up to 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 memory.