Astra for Law

pletnes

Just like breaking crypto in the age of cloud is more about cost than time, this will lead to legal attacks based on the same principle. The biggest wallet wins.

bezko

Will it be able to sue itself?

submeta

Will these models eventually replace all knowledge work, leaving lawyers, doctors, product managers, software developers, and others out of a job? If the benefits were shared across humanity, that could bring us closer to utopia. My worry is that we’ll instead end up with a handful of even wealthier billionaires and millions of people out of work.

cbg0

No word on model hallucinations in the blog post. https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-6-astra?omniscience...

railgunmerlin

Interesting to see the callout to companies like harvey in the post itself as consumers rather than competitors? I guess openai isn't quite willing to step into those customer relations themselves?

boredumb

memes and snark aside, can you use this to create legitimate terms and contracts for my products and if I do who is getting sued when it is wrong?

hackmack10

People that are saying OpenAI is screwed because a lack of profit, I'm not of that opinion. They are encroaching on every industry they can. They have name brand recognition, a huge user base and are showing they can be a valuable tool to all types of businesses. As much as I hate to see it. They are now threatening industries like Engineers, Game Developers, Accountants, 3D modelers, 3D animators, Video Production, Audio Production, Therapist, Tax Auditors, Journalists, Authors, Artists, Mathematicians, Product managers, Every type of analyst and pretty much any other job that can be done behind a computer screen. We have big problems for humanity.

jumploops

The courts are about to overrun with AI-generated lawsuits (even more so than they have been[0]). [0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-c...

piker

Second paragraph: > API customers including Harvey and Legora will be able to build on Astra for Law, bringing this intelligence into their own products and workflows. In other words: "no, no, we're not eating our children to prep for the IPO. Don't worry."

dzonga

open-ai have proven they can make good / decent models but business strategy is just spray and pray. they need to pick a lane and optimize for it. coz at their size they can't serve the application layer (a.i startups who can fine-tune models will eat their lunch) if they gonna do a consumer play - then go ham on that. otherwise they're gonna get caught in the dreaded middle valley.

WarmWash

Cool, now you can pay an attorney $500/hr for them to prompt Astra for 30 minutes, and bill you like they spent the normal 8 hours on the case.

gabhuzk

Law is a solved problem.

elpakal

where are the benchmarks

slowhadoken

Wouldn’t this and similar efforts to centralize bureaucracy make AI the new gatekeeper? Without reliable transparent models we’re just trusting OpenAI instead of a hundred top legal firms.

Ecstatify

Seems like another “product” that will be killed in 6 months, but is good for the IPO so they can say they solved law.

TomGarden

I wonder if Lawslop is gonna become a mainstream expression. Anyone got a better term?

cmcclellan

I imagine the point here is to separate out the APIs by different professions and charge accordingly.

6thbit

So there's a strategy shift here. They launched financial services specific tools and now law? Is the play here a set of specialized harnesses using their best general model?

aaimnr

So much for caring about the spirit of the law. Now we'll start an arms race for abusing every possible letter of the law. It's analogous to crypto. Started from some noble anti-authoritarian ideas and morphed into machine that removes any friction for capital - whoever has the most money will keep gaining the most.

freejazz

Went from AI replacing my job as an attorney, to them begging me to use their tools