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OpenAI-backed Harvey pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 for legal AI model

Harvey, a legal tech startup previously backed by OpenAI, has developed its own model, Harvey Tenet, by post-training on Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model. This move signifies a shift for Harvey, which previously relied on proprietary models from major US AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The company claims its new model achieves state-of-the-art performance in legal tasks, demonstrating how open-weight models can be customized for specialized industries to improve accuracy and reduce costs. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates how open-weight models can be leveraged for specialized applications, potentially lowering costs and increasing accuracy for enterprise AI.

RANK_REASON A company that uses AI models has pivoted its strategy to use an open-weight model from a Chinese provider, rather than proprietary models from US providers.

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OpenAI-backed Harvey pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 for legal AI model

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Xinmei Shen ·

    OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model

    A US artificial intelligence start-up backed by OpenAI has built its first in-house model on Chinese lab Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, highlighting a growing shift by Western tech firms towards Chinese open-weight systems amid soaring development costs. San Francisco-based legal tech pr…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🤖 OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model submitted by /u/zhumao [link] [comments] 📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI) 🔗 Li

    🤖 OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model submitted by /u/zhumao [link] [comments] 📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI) 🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1vuqtt1/openaibacked_legal_tech_firm_pivots_to_chinese/ # AI # Artifici…