The legal AI boom just lured a researcher out of Meta's Superintelligence Lab
Ethem Coban, a former Meta AI researcher, has left the company to launch a legal tech startup focused on customizing AI models for law firms. This move reflects a broader trend of AI talent leaving major labs to capitalize on the legal industry's demand for specialized AI tools.
Why it matters
It highlights the migration of top-tier AI talent from big tech to specialized vertical startups, indicating a maturing market for enterprise AI.
Josh Edelson/Bloomberg via Getty Images One of Meta's AI researchers left the company this month to start a legal tech company. Ethem Coban worked on teaching Meta's language models to reason through legal questions. Since then, he's had talks to raise $6 million in funding for a startup, according to a person familiar. The legal industry's artificial intelligence gold rush is luring talent from Silicon Valley's biggest labs. Ethem Coban, a researcher at Meta, left the company earlier this month to launch a legal tech startup, according to a person familiar with the matter. Coban, who worked on teaching Meta's language models to reason through legal questions, has been in talks to raise $6 million at a $25 million valuation. Talks are still early, and the terms of the deal could change. The startup is the latest entrant in an increasingly crowded legal tech market.
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