Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (Financial Times)

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Kirkland & Ellis is committing $500 million to build a proprietary AI platform, signaling major enterprise spending beyond vendor tools.

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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1825bb59-7b28-460d-b009-ee3cea5dbac3"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260528/i2.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260528/p2#a260528p2" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1825bb59-7b28-460d-b009-ee3cea5dbac3">Kirkland &amp; Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; World's highest-grossing law firm plans to put the &lsquo;collective intelligence&rsquo; of its lawyers into a tech platform</p>