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Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic

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Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when the model can tap into the company's own content, like Westlaw. CTO Joel Hron makes the point that what matters isn't in…

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  1. 2026-08-24 12:59 · The Decoder
    Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic

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