Harvey's first LLM for legal work is here
Legal tech firm Harvey has launched 'Tenet,' its first proprietary AI model designed to automate complex legal tasks at a lower cost. This move aims to reduce reliance on third-party providers like OpenAI and Anthropic while protecting the company from potential competition from its own model suppliers.
Why it matters
The shift toward proprietary models in specialized industries signals a maturing AI market where companies seek to control costs and intellectual property.
Harvey cofounder Gabe Pereyra. Harvey Legal tech giant Harvey has announced its first in-house, proprietary AI model, Tenet. The model is designed to handle legal work typically done by lawyers over many hours, at lower cost. The move clears a path for Harvey to someday help law firms train custom models on their data. Harvey built an $11 billion legal-software business on top of other companies' AI models. Now it's trying to prove it can build one of its own. On Tuesday, Harvey introduced Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work. Tenet is designed to help Harvey's software take on more of the tasks typically done by lawyers over hours or days, at a lower cost than the third-party models it relies on. The move comes as the companies behind the biggest general-purpose models are circling the legal market.
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