Harvey.ai

What is Harvey?

Simply put, Harvey is an AI assistant designed specifically for the legal industry. It is based on OpenAI's Big Language Model (OpenAI's Converge Incubator was also an early investor in Harvey), and is deeply trained in legal expertise to assist lawyers with a variety of tasks, such as

• Answering legal questions and providing citations.
• Analyzing contracts to identify potential problems
• Modifying contract terms to meet specific requirements
• Assisting with legal research, etc.

Compared with general-purpose AI, Harvey has more specialized and accurate performance in the legal field, and these advantages are reflected in the following:

• Specialization: Harvey has been specifically trained with legal data to understand legal terms and concepts more accurately and provide more specialized answers.
• Accuracy: By specializing in the legal field, Harvey's answers are typically more accurate and reliable than ChatGPT.
• Citation Support: Harvey is able to provide legal citations and sources, which are critical to legal work, whereas ChatGPT is often unable to provide specific citations.
• Compliance: Harvey has a special focus on data privacy and compliance, which is important when dealing with sensitive legal information; ChatGPT, as a general-purpose AI, can be risky in this regard.
• Workflow Integration: Harvey provides features and interfaces specifically designed for legal work, such as document uploading, contract analysis, etc., which are more in line with the day-to-day needs of lawyers.
• Customization: Harvey allows customers to use their own data for further training without using that data to improve the underlying model. This customization capability is something ChatGPT does not have.

Overall, while ChatGPT may be sufficient for general-purpose conversations and basic legal problems, Harvey.ai offers the legal industry a better-fitting, safer, and more efficient AI solution through deep specialization and customization capabilities. This explains why large professional services organizations like Allen & Overy and PwC chose to work with Harvey instead of going straight to the more well-known ChatGPT.

Harvey's entrepreneurial story

Harvey was founded in August 2022 by two young men, Gabe Pereira and Winston Weinberg, who had been working on big language modeling at DeepMind and Meta, and Winston, who had experience as a lawyer. The two were college roommates, and after Winston showed Gabe how law firms were using AI, they came up with the idea for Harvey, which was immediately backed by OpenAI.