2024-04-04: AI Startup Delivers Powerful Custom Legal Research Tool by Partnering with OpenAI
Harvey moves forward
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Article: Harvey partners with OpenAI to build a custom-trained model for legal professionals.
Who:
Harvey, an AI platform for legal, tax, and finance professionals, was founded by Winston Weinberg (attorney) and Gabe Pereyra (AI researcher)
The startup recently partnered with OpenAI to create a custom-trained case law model
Why:
Legal work is becoming increasingly complex, with vast amounts of contracts and documents to review
Existing foundation models and retrieval-augmented generation systems had limitations for the unique, open-ended nature of case law research
Harvey aimed to create an AI system that could thoroughly answer legal questions and cite relevant sources
How:
Harvey and OpenAI collaborated to inject new knowledge and reasoning capabilities into base models
They added the equivalent of 10 billion tokens worth of data, starting with Delaware case law and expanding to al…
