# Upstage — Upstage and LG Electronics Build On-Device LLM in LG Gram Laptops

- Company: Upstage (upstage.ai)
- Announced: 2024-02-06
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.upstage.ai/news/upstage-lg-on-device-ai
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18448-upstage-and-lg-electronics-build-on-device-llm-in-lg-gram-laptops
- Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini
- Models affected: Solar

Upstage and LG Electronics signed an MoU to deploy a small on-device LLM (SLM) on LG Gram laptops, enabling generative AI directly on end devices for improved responsiveness, personalization, reliability, and privacy. The partnership leverages Upstage's Solar model, a 10.7B parameter model that previously topped the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. The companies plan to expand AI functionalities to other home appliances.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.upstage.ai/news/upstage-lg-on-device-ai:

> This strategic partnership aims to execute generative AI directly on end devices, such as personal computers (PCs) or smartphones.

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