OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index
“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.”
He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index.
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law on 17 September. It is GPT-6 Astra, the company’s most powerful model, configured with legal search, instructions for legal analysis and writing, and controls aimed at law firms. Selected firms get it first through a Trusted Access programme in ChatGPT and Codex. The API follows later, as gpt-6-astra-law.
The index is the news
The model configuration matters less than what sits underneath it. OpenAI has built a legal search index covering United States case law, statutes, regulations, court rules and administrative decisions. It spans more than 230 million URLs, with sources added daily.
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