Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough technology, helping fuel the AI industrial revolution. OpenAI and Anthropic are market leaders, with extraordinary private valuations. The prospect of their respective trillion-dollar public company valuations, should their initial public offerings come to fruition, has drawn attention to LLM economics.
LLMs are transforming industries including healthcare and the…
We are rapidly approaching budget season and planning for contingencies in 2027. Perhaps open-weight models should be part of your fall planning.
Last year, DeepSeek created a scare for the American AI industry when it created a model that cost a fraction to develop relative to its U.S. counterparts. OpenAI alleges DeepSeek…
Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar.
The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing more than a “thin wrapper” around an LLM begs a deeper analysis of the value of a wrapper, particularly as open-source alternatives take root.
Let’s start with a Hershey bar. You pay for the chocolate, right?…
When Kirkland & Ellis announced a $500 million investment in AI, much of the reaction focused on the dollar amount. That much money commands attention in the legal industry.
But the dollar amount may not be the most interesting part of the story. The more important questions are what is Kirkland actually buying and…
Last week, Will Chen released MikeOSS, an open-source project on GitHub that claims to be feature-equivalent to Harvey and Legora. Among other things, MikeOSS has an assistant, a tabular review function, and reusable workflows. While it’s too early to tell how strong the technology is, the response in the development community has been…
This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice.
Consumer behavior…
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