The courts are going to very busy in a couple of years time
Ambrogi writes
Wait, are there now two legal AI companies named Harvey? And how is it they both involve a Winston? And why did one disappear overnight? It’s a legal tech mystery.
Last November, a GPT-powered legal AI startup called Harvey came out of stealth mode, revealing it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the developer of GPT. Since then, Harvey has seen some major wins, including being deployed firmwide by Allen & Overy, one of the world’s largest law firms, and then being adopted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world’s largest accounting firms, for its 4,000 legal professionals.
Needless to say, all of this made for exciting times for Harvey’s two founders, Winston Weinberg, formerly an associate at law firm O’Melveny & Myers, and Gabriel Pereyra, formerly a research scientist at DeepMind and a machine learning engineer at Meta AI.
Given this, I was surprised yesterday to learn of another Harvey legal product, also describing itself as an AI lawyer. Even stranger, the page title and the metadata description described the page not as AI lawyer Harvey, but as AI lawyer Winston — the very name of one of the other Harvey’s founders
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