Reuters hit frontier legal AI performance with ~$500k of compute by training its own model
josh_wills · x · 2026-10-10
A reposted thread highlights that Thomson Reuters trained and owns its own model, achieving frontier legal performance for roughly $500k in compute — while guaranteeing information security and IP priority and cutting token spend.
The poster asks which pharma company will follow the same path next (naming Eli Lilly), arguing that training your own model lets you "own your alpha."
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