Legal AI startup Harvey secured a new funding round at a $15.5 billion valuation, nearly doubling its value from March 2026. The company simultaneously launched Harvey Tenet, a proprietary model post-trained on legal data using the open-weight Kimi K3 base and Fireworks inference infrastructure. This move signals a strategic shift toward reducing reliance on proprietary frontier models like those from OpenAI or Anthropic by leveraging open-weight alternatives for industry-specific applications. For financial institutions, this trend highlights potential margin compression in enterprise software layers as companies build internal capabilities that bypass expensive API licensing fees.
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