Thomson Reuters launches Thomson 1.0, its own legal LLM

Thomson Reuters launched Thomson 1.0, an open-weights LLM trained on its own legal data, built on Alibaba's Qwen. Development cost $40 million, with the final training run costing $450,000. It will first deploy in CoCounsel Legal's Tabular Analysis.
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