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Kirkland says it's spending $500 MILLION to build its own in-house AI

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already? http...
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/28/26
seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked
heady out-of-control goyim
  05/28/26
Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/28/26
Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on inf...
Cheese-eating Overrated Candlestick Maker Kitty
  05/28/26
Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/28/26
LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like ...
Domesticated windowlicker
  05/29/26
...
sapphire yapping dilemma
  05/29/26
au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brian...
Crawly faggotry spot
  05/29/26
Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation water...
Domesticated windowlicker
  05/29/26
#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Mond...
Crawly faggotry spot
  05/29/26
but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months ...
Saffron Laughsome Jew Reading Party
  05/29/26
...
Crawly faggotry spot
  05/29/26
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plum boyish tank bawdyhouse
  05/29/26
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Spectacular yellow space
  05/29/26
but dbg assured me he would be safe
Hairraiser Ratface
  05/28/26
Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoardin...
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/28/26
this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best ...
Startled sex offender
  05/28/26
they probably tried claude code and think they can do anythi...
heady out-of-control goyim
  05/28/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/28/26
Fucking 180 Claude, run a 50 State search for "summa...
Histrionic idiotic dog poop theater
  05/29/26
...
Startled sex offender
  05/29/26
It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll ma...
Nighttime passionate state
  05/29/26
just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog
Transparent alcoholic set persian
  05/28/26
Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried s...
Bistre Affirmative Action Giraffe
  05/29/26
probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipu...
marvelous amethyst library philosopher-king
  05/29/26
They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash ...
carmine temple striped hyena
  05/29/26
which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate...
marvelous amethyst library philosopher-king
  05/29/26
It would if their problem is making more $
carmine temple striped hyena
  05/29/26
Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol
Cyan Selfie Ape
  05/29/26
That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more over...
carmine temple striped hyena
  05/29/26
Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkla...
multi-colored roast beef fat ankles
  05/29/26
an AI that is, on balance, in balance
Crawly faggotry spot
  05/29/26
...
marvelous amethyst library philosopher-king
  05/29/26
100%
Charismatic Dark Address Jap
  05/29/26
This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do a...
Fragrant mahogany travel guidebook gas station
  05/30/26
For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users usi...
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/30/26
I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI
Flushed market quadroon
  05/29/26
so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to inves...
Saffron Laughsome Jew Reading Party
  05/29/26
even scarier stuff for service partners rofl
Crawly faggotry spot
  05/29/26
yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the servi...
Saffron Laughsome Jew Reading Party
  05/29/26
I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who surviv...
snowy idea he suggested wrinkle
  05/29/26
This is Huge.
Shaky Love Of Her Life
  05/29/26
*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirklan...
Cowardly mewling kitchen
  05/29/26
JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just ...
Chartreuse stead famous landscape painting
  05/29/26
that's all these announcements ever are and people keep fall...
dun sick crotch indian lodge
  05/29/26
Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit be...
Shaky Love Of Her Life
  05/29/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/29/26
nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship
Talented Underhanded Ceo Theatre
  05/29/26
Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkla...
Bronze brunch
  05/29/26
Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we th...
Bistre Affirmative Action Giraffe
  05/30/26
This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more ...
maroon trump supporter mad-dog skullcap
  05/29/26
They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on th...
Fragrant mahogany travel guidebook gas station
  05/30/26
I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in bigl...
Charismatic Dark Address Jap
  05/29/26
No litigator AIs, please
bull headed blood rage
  05/29/26
why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you tel...
up-to-no-good ticket booth degenerate
  05/29/26
Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for ...
Bistre Affirmative Action Giraffe
  05/30/26
ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on C...
Fragrant mahogany travel guidebook gas station
  05/30/26
Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its...
french disgusting genital piercing knife
  05/30/26


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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/law-firm-kirkland-spend-500-million-developing-its-own-ai-platform-2026-05-28/

Just a chill $625k per lawyer going to Jensen Huang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49905873)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:33 PM
Author: heady out-of-control goyim

seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49905901)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49905907)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Overrated Candlestick Maker Kitty

Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on information from 250 Kirkland lawyers ​and would involve more than 180 technology professionals inside and outside the firm.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49905906)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49905910)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: Domesticated windowlicker

LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like 4,000 other attorneys whose brains aren’t worthy of being digitized. What a fucking indictment, holy shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906516)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: sapphire yapping dilemma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906522)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:48 AM
Author: Crawly faggotry spot

au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brians digitized. the service partners whose brains have now been digitized are now on the chopping block.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906546)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:47 PM
Author: Domesticated windowlicker

Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation waterfall, and tax McKirkland “partners” who have each spent a 60K hours over the last 20 years grinding out the same repetitive 5.7/9.8 drafting and negotiation tasks who are getting digitized. And they’re terminally non-equity, so they’re not sharing in any of the upside of this shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906623)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:53 PM
Author: Crawly faggotry spot

#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Monday at 9am so we can digitize your brain and fire you. Thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906635)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: Saffron Laughsome Jew Reading Party

but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months to record everything they do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906658)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: Crawly faggotry spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906663)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: plum boyish tank bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906654)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Spectacular yellow space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906829)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:26 PM
Author: Hairraiser Ratface

but dbg assured me he would be safe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906019)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoarding $500 million all this time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906021)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:47 PM
Author: Startled sex offender

this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best general purpose AI model, will also make the best AI model for the law. it's not like kirkland will manage to make anything better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906055)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:51 PM
Author: heady out-of-control goyim

they probably tried claude code and think they can do anything now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906060)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:52 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906064)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:03 PM
Author: Histrionic idiotic dog poop theater

Fucking 180

Claude, run a 50 State search for "summary judgment standard" thank

Now do the same task 800 times per week thank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906570)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:09 PM
Author: Startled sex offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906673)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:35 PM
Author: Nighttime passionate state

It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll market it as "The Kirkland Difference"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906605)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:59 PM
Author: Transparent alcoholic set persian

just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906074)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:31 AM
Author: Bistre Affirmative Action Giraffe

Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried some ai bullshit and it’s not as good as chat cpt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906529)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM
Author: marvelous amethyst library philosopher-king

probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipulating:

-- "we want our own airgapped model specifically tuned and trained in the following ways"

-- "you won't have any ongoing compute cost for this because it'll be on our own hardware -- fire and forget revenue infusion for you"

-- "this isn't creating opportunity cost for you because we can't use your API model anyway due to client restrictions (e.g. IP litigation tech clients won't let any material be run through frontier LLMs)"

probably worth a pitch because AI niggers need MONEY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906543)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: carmine temple striped hyena

They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash based on its current market cap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906593)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: marvelous amethyst library philosopher-king

which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate that they could at least get a meeting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906619)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: carmine temple striped hyena

It would if their problem is making more $

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907213)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: Cyan Selfie Ape

Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906555)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:16 PM
Author: carmine temple striped hyena

That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more overcooked than any SAAS provider in any industry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906583)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: multi-colored roast beef fat ankles

Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkland-specific wrapper on a third-party platform. They want to have more customization and in-house control over shit. They'll have it trained on more in-house work product. They'll be able to integrate with ediscovery vendors and the like. They'll solve some of the confidentiality concerns. It's not "inventing AI" or some dumb shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906601)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: Crawly faggotry spot

an AI that is, on balance, in balance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906618)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:46 PM
Author: marvelous amethyst library philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906621)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Charismatic Dark Address Jap

100%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907043)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:51 PM
Author: Fragrant mahogany travel guidebook gas station

This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do all of this with a Harvey AI sub at a small fraction of the price. They could also create some customization for Claude and spend even less. The only way to spend $500 million on this is pure incompetence or theft.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907810)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users using open weight models, with full time support staff, would be maybe $10mm yr tops. They could do it for $5 million/yr I bet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907840)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:36 PM
Author: Flushed market quadroon

I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906607)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: Saffron Laughsome Jew Reading Party

so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to invest in this. they must have ran the numbers and decided the potential associate savings were worth it. pretty scary stuff for young lawyers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906627)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:55 PM
Author: Crawly faggotry spot

even scarier stuff for service partners rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906641)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:56 PM
Author: Saffron Laughsome Jew Reading Party

yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the service partners will be docked down to associate pay levels and the equity partners will fucking ball out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906643)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: snowy idea he suggested wrinkle

I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who survive this will ball out even more than they already are balling out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906805)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:01 PM
Author: Shaky Love Of Her Life

This is Huge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906653)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: Cowardly mewling kitchen

*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirkland brand Extra Virgin Olive Oil depending upon predicted customer behaviors*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906662)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: Chartreuse stead famous landscape painting

JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just advertising to dumbfuck GCs. They might as well have said $1 BILLION to be doubly impressive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906819)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: dun sick crotch indian lodge

that's all these announcements ever are and people keep falling for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906832)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:47 PM
Author: Shaky Love Of Her Life

Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907032)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:34 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907018)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: Talented Underhanded Ceo Theatre

nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906822)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: Bronze brunch

Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkland's AI law slop dispenser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906841)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:56 PM
Author: Bistre Affirmative Action Giraffe

Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we thought of was Costco.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907711)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 4:00 PM
Author: maroon trump supporter mad-dog skullcap

This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more than that on tokens and AI licenses anyway given the nature of their business. Not really news IMO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49906858)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Fragrant mahogany travel guidebook gas station

They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on this if they just went with an existing solution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907815)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Charismatic Dark Address Jap

I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in biglaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907039)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:49 PM
Author: bull headed blood rage

No litigator AIs, please

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907209)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 10:01 PM
Author: up-to-no-good ticket booth degenerate

why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you telling me a team of 10 or so capable software engineers couldn’t build whatever Kirkland wants it to do for that much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907238)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:57 PM
Author: Bistre Affirmative Action Giraffe

Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for everyone and tell them to use chat GPT.

Also I’m guessing we’re gonna start having shit like Kirkland Costco (powered by ChatGPT) very soon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907714)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:52 PM
Author: Fragrant mahogany travel guidebook gas station

ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on Claude) or Gemini are all fine. You can get enterprise subs with terms that will care for confidentiality concerns.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907812)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: french disgusting genital piercing knife

Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its infancy and no one has actually cured the hallucination problem, or the randomly-speaking-chinese problem, or the "it doesn't understand human psychology" problem. All of these platforms are still dogshit right now. They can't even OCR well. There are SAAS companies advertising cloud OCR platforms to law firms, and they brag that they do NOT use AI.

There's also no benefit to training an AI on client data vs transforming client data into vector databases. In fact it it's worse, because every time there's a new development you have to retrain the model, rather than just updating some vector database of client files. And vector databases cost nothing to deploy and maintain. This really looks like fake news to me and I don't understand why Kirkland announced this to Thomson Reuters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2),#49907842)