Latham & Watkins, No.2 US Law Firm, Buys Nvidia Hardware to Fine-tune Open Weights In-house
MikeBirdTech · x · 2026-09-16
The US's second-largest law firm Latham & Watkins is buying Nvidia hardware to fine-tune open-weight models in-house — a signal of the "enterprise sovereign AI stack" trend: open weights + proprietary data + local compute. The argument: once AI plays a crucial role in business operations, having full control over it is a necessity, and this trend is only accelerating.
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