Junestrand: Anthropic and Gemini will outperform OpenAI in enterprise AI
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Max Junestrand is the CEO of legal AI company Legora. He ranks foundational model providers for enterprise legal workflows over a two-year horizon.
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“I'll bet based on what I've seen in the last sort of three, six months. I think for our type of work, it will either be cloud or Gemini. That is the top model. And it will be dependent on if context window is a very important factor or not. So far it is not because we've built so much architecture around handling lack of context window that we still prefer the cloud models. Or the anthropic models. And it seems to me like open AI is going down the, you know, let users fine tune models like that type of journey a bit more, which so far I don't have a lot of reason to believe it.”
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