Industry change
OpenAI introduces Astra for Law
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- OpenAI blog
Summary
On September 17, OpenAI announced Astra for Law, a legal edition of its frontier model (gpt-6-astra-law in the API). It pairs GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index covering more than 230 million URLs of U.S. case law, statutes, and regulations. In OpenAI's own evaluation on a private 200-question validation set from Vals AI's Legal Research Bench, the full setup passed 54.0% of questions versus 38.7% for GPT-6 Astra using web search alone. Harvey and Legora can build on it via the API, and firms get 26 ecosystem plugins such as Relativity and Clio plus legal-grade controls including Zero Data Retention. Access starts through a Trusted Access program for selected law firms.
Why it matters for our work
An early case of AI moving from search assistance into end-to-end professional workflows in legal work. It could cut legal research time significantly, though the performance figures come from OpenAI's own evaluation.
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