@rabois: This is mostly correct.
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Kirkland & Ellis plans to spend $500M over four years, including $100M this year, to build its own internal AI legal tools, likely in response to the Harvey AI platform.
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This is mostly correct.
FleetingBits (@fleetingbits): some thoughts on kirkland building its own harvey
kirkland is spending $500m over four years in order to build its own internal ai legal tools; kirkland intends to spend $100m this year
i suspect that kirkland is doing this because they have told themselves that they
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@rabois: Correct.
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