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Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters, overseeing AI strategy and model selection for its legal and professional information products.
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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The share buying model-serving platforms went from 4.5% in January to 6.1% in July, and two named buyers have now moved production work onto Chinese open weights while incumbent revenue has not yet moved.
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The company says its in-house Thomson-1 matches Claude Opus 4.8 on internal evals, and that the Alibaba base is de-biased. Nobody outside can check either claim.
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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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