OpenAI launches Astra for Law
- Vendors
- OpenAI
- Significance
- High
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Cooley has moved past pilots into deployment, with OpenAI in the stack. This is a high-significance signal for buyers benchmarking their panel.
OpenAI released Astra for Law, a legal-tuned GPT-6 Astra configuration with a 230M+ URL legal search index (via Free Law Project/CourtListener), a zero-data-retention trusted access program, 26 launch-partner plugins (Thomson Reuters, Intapp, Harvey, Legora, DeepJudge, iManage), and ChatGPT for Word GA. Early co-development partners include Cooley, Ropes & Gray, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Latham & Watkins.
- Significance
- High
- Source type
- Vendor Announcement
Vendors involved
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Full timeline of tracked moves, capability areas, vendors in use and their Legal AI Capability Index standing.
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