US's #2 law firm Latham & Watkins is building its own in-house Nvidia AI stack
MikeBirdTech · x · 2026-09-15
- A viral thread claims Latham & Watkins, the US's second-largest law firm with $8.3B in annual revenue, is building an in-house AI stack: self-owned Nvidia servers, fine-tuned open-weight models, and access restricted to employees.
- The firm holds decades of contracts, negotiations and legal reasoning it won't hand to OpenAI or Anthropic for expensive tokens — nor risk having that data train frontier models.
- tinygrad draws the broader lesson: any business over 50 people should run AI on premise, or the tooling serves to extract from you rather than serve you.
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