LG announced its new lineup of ‘Hybrid AI’ Gram laptops, and they’re thinner than ever

LG simply introduced that it is increasing its lineup of Gram laptops in 2025, which incorporates launching the corporate’s first-ever Copilot+ PC and its first units powered by Gram AI, its proprietary hybrid AI that makes use of each on-device and cloud-based AI fashions. 

Anticipated to be unveiled at CES 2025, the Gram, Gram Professional, Gram Professional 2-in-1, and Gram E book are simply as slim and light-weight as final yr’s fashions. We tested them, and may affirm that they are among the thinnest, lightest laptops we’ve ever seen. What’s new is that they now come outfitted with LG’s on-device “Gram Chat” AI to course of and analyze knowledge regionally, even when not related to Wi-Fi.  

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Gram Chat’s hybrid strategy makes use of LG’s EXAONE large language model when offline, however when related to Wi-Fi, it employs cloud-based AI powered by GPT-4o. LG Analysis launched its EXAONE 3.0 LLM earlier this yr after a three-year improvement interval.

So, what does this imply for laptop computer customers? AI all day, day-after-day, whether or not or not you’ve got Wi-Fi. LG says Gram Chat integrates with calendar and e mail apps, enabling the AI to assist handle a consumer’s schedule in addition to ship and obtain emails and messages. It additionally leverages the “Time Journey” characteristic, which might revisit internet pages, paperwork, movies and audio information (which sounds just a little bit like a certain controversial Windows feature). 

When it comes to {hardware}, the brand new Gram lineup is absolutely dedicated to operating Intel processors, that includes each the “Arrow Lake” Intel Core Extremely H-Sequence and the “Lunar Lake” Intel Core Extremely V-Sequence, which is especially optimized for AI duties. The truth is, the 0.49-inch thick LG Gram Professional with the Lunar Lake chip is the primary from the sequence to be designated as a Copilot+ PC, and was first announced back in September at IFA in Berlin. 

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The Lunar Lake processors have proven themselves to be high-performing chips on the other devices we tested this year, providing marathon batteries and supercharging AI efficiency with an NPU able to as much as 48 TOPS (trillion operations per second). 

The 2025 Gram Professional laptop computer lineup continues LG’s pattern of providing 2TB storage choices (apart from the Gram E book, the smaller, extra accessible mannequin) and plenty of onboard RAM. Surprisingly, although, solely the 16-inch 2-in-1 Gram Professional has an OLED show possibility. This is a breakdown of the main specs on the brand new Gram Professional laptops:

Relating to pricing, LG has not dropped any numbers but. However primarily based on the present pricing of 2024’s Gram Professional fashions, I’d estimate the primary three laptops can be properly above the $1,500 mark, hovering round $2,000 and up. The LG Gram E book, nevertheless, ought to be decrease, with its comparatively modest suite of {hardware}. 

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The opposite factor I will be looking for is warmth effectivity with the brand new processors, because the ultrathin type issue resulted in units that ran barely hotter than I’d have preferred. Keep tuned for full-length critiques as soon as we are able to get our arms on these ultra-thin and light-weight machines.