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Harvey is a legal AI company that builds generative AI tools for law firms and corporate legal departments, backed by investors including OpenAI.
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Astra for Law is GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and analysis instructions wrapped around it. OpenAI will also sell that index through an API to Harvey and Legora, at a price it has not published.
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Max Junestrand told Politico that Europe's opportunity is in applications, and in the same conversation he agreed that European customers waiting longer for new American models is a competitive disadvantage.
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A March 2026 update lifted usage and inverted Harvey's gross margin, from about 50% to minus 50%. Its answer is Tenet, a legal model post-trained on the open-weight Kimi K3 base and run on compute it controls.
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The legal toolkit ships as its own entry in the ChatGPT model picker and its own API string. Firms weighing it against retrieval stacks they already built still have no price to compare.
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The San Francisco company now has $50m in total funding and a research preview, Simulations, that runs anomaly detection over replayed user traffic on each pull request. It works only if you already have traffic.
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Haize Labs sold red teaming and evaluation tooling to frontier labs and large enterprises. Its engineers are now an internal research group inside a Toronto holding company that buys small-business software.
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Rune Kvist's startup wants to sell enterprises an audited, insured answer to who pays when an agent fails, and the round was announced in a podcast episode that names Cursor, Harvey, Lovable and ElevenLabs.
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The Series A led by Ribbit Capital takes AIUC's total funding to $55M, paying for quarterly audits of a standard that Cursor, Harvey, KPMG and four other named vendors certify against, and for a push up to frontier models.
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A $40M Series A led by Ribbit Capital pays for AIUC's move from auditing application-layer agents into underwriting frontier models, on its founders' argument that enterprise pilots stall in security review.
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The operator boards copied for twenty years spent 1993 to 2003 in product and engineering jobs. SaaStr counts 82 of the 100 fastest-growing AI-native startups with a technical CEO, against 49% of the 2013 unicorn class.
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Harvey puts roughly 180 former practicing attorneys, most with eight to ten years behind them, into every customer deployment. At its own published pay band that bench costs $39.6m to $57.6m a year in on-target cash.
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