Key facts
- OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a new offering for legal professionals.
- Astra for Law includes plugin tools, enhanced legal case search, and custom model tweaks.
- The tool is built on OpenAI's most advanced and expensive model.
- OpenAI is targeting the AmLaw 200, the 200 largest American law firms.
- The launch includes plugins for ChatGPT from legal tech companies like Harvey and Thomson Reuters.
- OpenAI's rival Anthropic released a similar legal-focused product in May.
OpenAI is expanding its reach into specialized industries with the launch of Astra for Law, a new offering tailored for legal professionals. Announced on Thursday, the tool aims to enhance legal work by providing plugin capabilities, improved search functions for legal cases, and customized model adjustments. This move signifies OpenAI's strategy to capture specific industry markets as it prepares for a potential initial public offering.
The legal sector launch follows OpenAI's recent introduction of ChatGPT for Financial Services and similar products for educators, clinicians, life sciences researchers, and personal health and finance sectors. Astra for Law is built on OpenAI's most advanced model and is designed to address the specific knowledge work requirements of legal professionals, aiming to reduce hallucinations and improve legal reasoning, according to OpenAI.
Jason Boehmig, who leads legal product at OpenAI, stated that the company's focus is on the customer rather than the competition. He noted that the tool provides responses that are approximately twice as long as typical Astra responses, a feature developed based on user feedback. OpenAI is targeting the AmLaw 200, the 200 largest American law firms, with this offering.
Legal tech companies such as Harvey, Legora, Thomson Reuters, iManage, and DeepJudge can integrate Astra for Law into their own products. OpenAI also plans to bring a standout feature from its financial services launch, a citations tool, to the legal offering soon.