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Thomson Reuters' flagship legal research platform, providing case law, statutes, and analytical content to lawyers and legal researchers.
Pandektes, a Copenhagen legal research startup, raised a €13.5M Series A after reaching more than 500 customers in three and a half years. Whether it is actually replacing incumbents depends on how many buyers cancel their old subscriptions, and the company puts that only at "many".
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Thomson Reuters kept its copyright win over ROSS Intelligence on appeal, the first US appellate ruling on fair use in AI training. ROSS had been refused a Westlaw licence as a rival, so the ruling lets owners of training data set a price or decline to sell.
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Thomson Reuters puts development of its first proprietary model at roughly $40 million, with under $450,000 of that in the final training run, and says the total still excludes the startup it bought and the cost of keeping the model running.
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Gemini Enterprise for Legal ships as skills, connectors, partner agents and a control plane. One of the systems it plugs into belongs to Thomson Reuters.
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The $450,000 training run everyone is quoting is about one percent of the programme behind it. The in-house model took one CoCounsel feature; the agent layer under it stays licensed.
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The final run on an open-weight base cost about 1.1% of the two-year program. The expensive part was the corpus and the expert hours, and the live product decision is which task goes to which model.
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