OpenAI's week of vertical pushes makes it supplier and rival to Harvey, OpenEvidence
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-18
OpenAI is moving to own the professional work surface, with a burst of announcements in one week spanning financial services (overlapping Rogo and Hebbia), law (Harvey, Legora) and medicine (OpenEvidence). Increasingly, OpenAI is both the model supplier to and a direct competitor of these vertical AI startups — the "model is the product" squeeze in action.
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