Pereyra: Client conflict rules mean law firms need multiple AI providers
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Gabe Pereyra, co-founder and President of legal AI platform Harvey, explains why enterprise law firms face client conflict risks if they standardize on only one foundation model provider.
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“Most of these law firms and enterprises Can't rely on a single lab provider. So like there's a big risk if you're a law firm that if you just use Anthropic or you just use OpenAI you run into conflict risk. So imagine you're using only Anthropics models as a law firm and you want to represent OpenAI. OpenAI is not going to let you send their sensitive legal data to Anthropics models. And so as a law firm, you need to support all the different models if you want to represent OpenAI and Google and Microsoft and all these providers.”
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