Dev Reverse Engineers Billion-Dollar Legal AI Harvey, Releases It Free and Open Source
lolyeahnope · hn · 2026-11-05
A developer claims to have reverse engineered Harvey — the billion-dollar legal AI startup's product — and released its functionality as a free open-source project. The news comes via a press release, so technical details and legal implications remain unverified, but it raises pointed questions about how reproducible high-valuation closed-source AI products really are.
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