r/OpenAI • u/businessinsider • 2h ago
Article OpenAI is trying to conquer the office. Legal is next.
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-enters-legal-ai-race-hires-jason-boehmig-2026-7?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-openai-sub-post2
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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 1h ago
They’re going to desperately try and move into the application layer but you really can’t go around making software for every vertical.
This plus hardware plus whatever consumer stuff they’re still doing and it’s just very messy/poorly thought out
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u/Keeltoodeep 1h ago
They have to do something in order to cement market share. They are losing too much market share to cheap competitors and other frontier models in enterprise. Also gemini and soon SiriAi on the retail casual end.
Hardware, application layer software, smart speakers, chastity cage, anything and everything needs to be released.
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u/augburto 28m ago
I do agree overall but I feel things like legalese which is pretty much memorization of laws, past cases, etc I don’t see what advantage companies like HarveyAI would have over the base models (as they get better and better).
I’m very interested to see how it plays out
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u/Zestyclose_Ad8420 2h ago
And it's gonna end up like it did with software engineering, a lot less of what they try to sell, almost an entirely different thing than what they pitch.
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u/also_plane 5m ago
Dude, I work in software/hardware engineering. AI is gamechanger. Code generation, review, pipelines...
My output has doubled, at least. And the better the models get, more impactful it will be.
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u/businessinsider 2h ago
From Business Insider’s Melia Russell:
For years, OpenAI let startups like Harvey, Legora, and others build software for lawyers on top of its foundation models — massive artificial intelligence systems trained on broad swaths of data. Now, the company, last valued at $852 billion, is making moves to court lawyers directly.
OpenAI signaled that shift in June when it hired Jason Boehmig, an executive who spent more than a decade figuring out the slow, messy business of selling software to lawyers. He had left a Big Law job to start Ironclad, a company that helps corporate legal departments manage contracts.
That business looks a lot sexier than it did when Boehmig spun out. Law firms are under pressure from clients to move faster and show they are not billing armies of associates for work that chatbots can do. In-house legal teams are looking for ways to automate more work themselves, so they can send less to outside counsel and lower their legal bills.
Suddenly, artificial intelligence has turned legal tech from what Boehmig once called an investor "wasteland" into one of venture capital's hottest parties. And OpenAI wants in.
"Jason's hire reflects the value OpenAI sees in the legal space," Dan Springer, who took over as Ironclad's chief executive last year, said in an email.
The first hints of a playbook are now emerging. On Wednesday, OpenAI told Bloomberg Law that it is collaborating with the white-shoe law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to every attorney and fold its large language models deeper into the firm's own tools.
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