{
  "id": 2386577,
  "title": "OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/openai-backed-legal-tech-firm-pivots-to-chinese-kimi-k3-open-weight",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-21T14:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3364827/openai-backed-legal-tech-firm-pivots-chinese-kimi-k3-open-weight-model"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "US artificial intelligence start-up Harvey, backed by OpenAI, has unveiled its latest model, Harvey Tenet, built on the open-weight Chinese system Kimi K3 developed by Chinese lab Moonshot AI. This shift highlights the trend of Western tech firms moving towards Chinese open-weight models due to rising development costs. Harvey, founded in 2022 and valued at $11 billion in March, initially customized closed proprietary models from US leaders like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google for legal applications. However, the company's pivot to open-weight models, post-trained with specialised legal data, resulted in \"state-of-the-art\" performance in complex legal tasks. The training for Harvey Tenet, using 150 Nvidia B300 GPUs, took two months. Harvey emphasizes cost efficiency, as open-weight models offer lower per token prices and reduced token consumption in inference. Other companies, such as AT&T, are also exploring Chinese open-weight models, though they are still evaluating and assessing potential risks.",
  "summary": "A US artificial intelligence start-up backed by OpenAI has built its first in-house model on Chinese lab 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…",
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      {
        "outlet": "SCMP Tech",
        "title": "OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/openai-backed-legal-tech-firm-pivots-to-chinese-kimi-k3-open-weight-2391333",
        "published": "2026-08-21T14:00:10.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}