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OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model

San Francisco-based legal tech provider Harvey, backed by OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 base, achieving 'state-of-the-art' performance in complex legal work. The pivot highlights a growing shift by Western tech firms toward Chinese open-weight systems amid soaring development costs, with AI policy researcher Simon Hedlin calling it 'a great example of open-weight models' enabling specialized post-training.

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OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model
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San Francisco-based Harvey says its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on top of the open-weight Kimi K3 base

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3,highlighting a growing shift by Western tech firms towards Chinese open-weight systems amid soaring development costs.

San Francisco-based legal tech provider Harvey, whose high-profile backers also include Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, said on Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on top of the open-weight Kimi K3 base.

The company said the system achieved “state-of-the-art” performance in complex legal work.

OpenAIand Google for legal applications. Harvey’s pivot was “a great example of open-weight models” enabling developers to post-train systems on specific industry or corporate data for higher accuracy and lower inference costs, AI policy researcher Simon Hedlin wrote on X on Friday.

Post-training is the process of refining a general-purpose base model with specialised data sets to excel at specific tasks.

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