Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers for in-house AI; post-training on proprietary data called a no-brainer
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-14
Law firm Latham & Watkins has bought Nvidia servers to build in-house AI systems, sparking discussion that large companies sitting on proprietary data should post-train models before OpenAI/Anthropic enter their vertical.
The argument: best case you own weights competitors don't; worst case you spent under 1% of the balance sheet on GPUs as an asset class.
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