LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today (27 February) announced their plan to deploy OpenAI’s APIs and fine-tuned models across the LexisNexis ecosystem of products like the Lexis+ AI legal workflow solution and LexisNexis Protégé personalized AI assistant.
LexisNexis will directly leverage OpenAI’s latest models and jointly develop custom models for legal workflows that depend on generative AI technology for enhanced “chain of thought” reasoning. LexisNexis says that this is part of its multi-model approach to selecting the best AI model for each legal task, and that LexisNexis has leveraged OpenAI models in its products since 2022.
“At LexisNexis, we are dedicated to delivering high-quality, highly personalized AI innovation for legal and business professionals to achieve faster, enhanced outcomes,” said Jeff Reihl, EVP and chief technology officer at LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “As leaders in customer-focused legal AI, we prioritize selecting top-performing models and developing custom models for customers’ complex workflows and quickly integrating those models into our products. Our direct collaboration with OpenAI allows us to accelerate this innovation.”
As part of the agreement, LexisNexis global teams will “accelerate innovation to address customers’ core needs, via ChatGPT Enterprise,” LexisNexis said.
We asked LexisNexis for more information on the partnership and the timing of this announcement and a spokesperson said: “OpenAI and LexisNexis will collaborate on model fine-tuning to deliver the highest quality results to customers. Because legal language can be complex, we deploy the best LLM for the customer use case. Model fine-tuning of the latest reasoning models to handle our customers’ very sophisticated legal queries is essential.”
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