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 go beyond its current Gram laptops.

The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished as the only model using the Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors.

The LG Gram Pro will be available in 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 will have Intel Arc GPUs, while the 17-inch Gram Pro will instead feature an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.

Gram Chat On-Device, which uses a “small language model derived from LG AI Research’s EXAONE large language model,” powers offline features, including Time Travel, which lets users quickly revisit “web pages, documents, videos and audio files” they’ve recently accessed. LG’s software is adding tools similar to Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, but given the trouble Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll have to wait and see how it all measures up.

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

Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and responds to inquiries using “vast web-based datasets for detailed and comprehensive responses” while integrating with calendar and email services. It requires an active internet connection and will only be free for the first year.

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

LG will also introduce its entry-level 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 of up to 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 memory.