Google’s latest Chromebook Plus comes with free AI features

Google today announced the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, considering it to be the “standard-of-the-art Chromebook Plus” and matches it with advanced specifications. It has two exclusive AI features along with 12 free Google AI Pros, which include access to advanced AI tools such as VEO 3 FAST, GEMINI 2.5 Pro, and Flow.

This 14-inch Clamshell-style computer features Mediatek’s new high-end Kompanio Ultra processor, which has up to 50 top NPUs (trillions of operations per second to quantify AI performance). In layman’s terms, it can handle more AI tasks Car in Instead of needing to offload them to the cloud. This is also the first Chromebook Plus to run on ARM hardware.

Chromebook Plus 14 has two unique AI software features that can be leveraged: Smart Grouping, a project management tool that categorizes users’ open tabs by task, while AI image editing is performed in the Gallery application. It will be the longest Chromebook Plus boot, offering up to 17 hours of battery life per charge.

The Chromebook Plus 14 features a 0.62-inch thin fanless design, which starts at less than 2.6 pounds. (Hello, Chromebook Air?) Highlights of other specification sheets include:

• 16:10, 400-NIT 2K OLED display, optional touch screen upgrade

• Four-wheel speakers with Dolby Atmos (Chromebook first)

• 5MP webcam with physical privacy shutter

• Backlit keyboard with optional fingerprint reader

• Supports two external 4K displays

• WiFi 7

• 12 to 16GB RAM

• Up to 256GB of UFS storage

• Shell and moon gray color matching

Later this month, the Chromebook Plus 14 will be available in two configurations in Lenovo and Best Buy, for $649 and $749 respectively.

Chromebooks or Chromeos-based laptops have come a long way since basic old cars in the early 2010s. Google introduced Chromebook Plus certification in October 2023, which accelerated. The label is suitable for models with enhanced functionality and specification requirements, helping shoppers easily identify more powerful machines. But Chromebook plus 14 toes so far, the blurry lines between Chromebooks and regular budget laptops.

Lenovo is promoting equipment accordingly. “Whether you are an executive who needs AI performance, an artist who wants to create outside the studio, or a daily user who wants to browse, learn or play, this premium device is the perfect everyday companion for you,” said Benny Zhang, executive director and general manager of Chromebooks, Lenovo Smart Device Group.

The Chromebook Plus 14 debuts along with several new AI-driven features and updates from the Chromebook Plus series that begin rolling out today on all models:

• Select lens search You can find anything highlighted on the screen (regardless of the app) by long pressing or screenshot tools. This is also standard, no chromebook is added.

• Text capturea tool to convert information from pictures to editable text. It also works with event invitations, which automatically becomes Google Calendar.

• this Quickly insert key AI images can now be generated on demand.

• A new one “Simplify” tool in “Help Me Read” Complex term literals can be decoded.

Now every Chromebook Plus has 12 free Google AI Pros (formerly Google One AI Premium), a $239.88 value that unlocks 2TB of cloud storage and access to tools like Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flow, Flow, and weo 3 Fast, among other privileges.