HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at work, or a bit creepy

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You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart. The printer profiteer announced HP IQ on Tuesday and said it comprises three elements: an LLM you can chat with or grant access to documents, a meeting summarizer, and HP NearSense, which allows you to seamlessly share files with coworkers in your vicinity or log into a meeting room’s HP Poly conferencing system just by being there. HP IQ with meetings, chats, and NearSense features - Click to enlarge “We see a big opportunity to help people thrive more in the workplace,” Matt Brown, head of product for HP IQ, told The Register. “And to do that we’re creating this layer of intelligence that will stretch across our devices and really come to life in our AI PCs and make them more valuable than ever before and provide a really powerful model right there inside the PC.” To run HP IQ when an early access program kicks off later this northern spring, you will need one of the company’s new 2026 EliteBook or ProBook models designated as an “AI PC” (which should include most if not all of the SKUs) with at least 24 GB of RAM. The company plans to expand to other HP notebooks, desktops, and Poly Studio Video Bars by the northern summer, with new HP IQ devices coming out in the second half of the year. HP IQ chat window - Click to enlarge In a demo, an HP rep uploaded a sensitive document to a PC and then asked the IQ bot, which is based on OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b, to analyze it. He then asked it to help him write an overview of a board meeting he was planning. It did both of these tasks quickly and with great detail. The rep then showed off the meeting agent portion of HP IQ, which lets you record in-person meetings using your laptop’s microphones and then use that data to generate action items and summaries. The tool also allows users to ...