24 August 2026
Thomson Reuters builds custom legal AI model with Alibaba technology
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- Thomson Reuters invested $40 million over two years to create a specialized AI model for legal work by customizing Alibaba's open-source Qwen model with its own decades of legal content.
- The company fine-tuned an existing open-source model rather than building from scratch, a strategy that costs roughly equivalent to one year of API fees for large organizations.
