Thomson Reuters' frontier-competitive legal model Thomson trained for just $450K with curated data
schwarzjn_ · x · 2026-09-09
Thomson, the frontier-competitive legal model Thomson Reuters launched last month, was trained for only $450K. DatologyAI reveals it was a key partner curating the proprietary data for mid-training, and has published a case study on the project — a strong data point that data curation can substitute for massive compute.
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