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Kirkland says it's spending $500 MILLION to build its own in-house AI
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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:22 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake How the fuck is there not a thread on this already?
Just a chill $625k per lawyer going to Jensen Huang |
Date: May 28th, 2026 10:33 PM Author: navy shaky community account seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905901) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905907) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: dashing amber regret tanning salon Kirkland said its platform would be designed based on information from 250 Kirkland lawyers and would involve more than 180 technology professionals inside and outside the firm.
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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:36 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905910) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:27 AM Author: concupiscible resort LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like 4,000 other attorneys whose brains aren’t worthy of being digitized. What a fucking indictment, holy shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906516) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:29 AM Author: cyan school cafeteria ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906522) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: azure kitchen pocket flask au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brians digitized. the service partners whose brains have now been digitized are now on the chopping block. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906546) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:47 PM Author: concupiscible resort Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation waterfall, and tax McKirkland “partners” who have each spent a 60K hours over the last 20 years grinding out the same repetitive 5.7/9.8 drafting and negotiation tasks who are getting digitized. And they’re terminally non-equity, so they’re not sharing in any of the upside of this shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906623) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:53 PM Author: azure kitchen pocket flask #All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Monday at 9am so we can digitize your brain and fire you. Thank. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906635) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: Coral Point Becky but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months to record everything they do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906658) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM Author: azure kitchen pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906663) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:02 PM Author: Lime odious house idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906654) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:49 PM Author: Adventurous university circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906829) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:26 PM Author: Jet-lagged aromatic school weed whacker but dbg assured me he would be safe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906019) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:27 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoarding $500 million all this time? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906021) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:47 PM Author: Brass stage this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best general purpose AI model, will also make the best AI model for the law. it's not like kirkland will manage to make anything better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906055) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:51 PM Author: navy shaky community account they probably tried claude code and think they can do anything now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906060) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:52 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906064) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: cowardly range Fucking 180
Claude, run a 50 State search for "summary judgment standard" thank
Now do the same task 800 times per week thank |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:09 PM Author: Brass stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906673) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:35 PM Author: Infuriating learning disabled psychic It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll market it as "The Kirkland Difference" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906605) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:23 PM Author: Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS Absolutely this, people are delusional to think you are reaching the frontier for $500m.
It will be a wrapper or something like post-training an open model |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:24 PM Author: harnessman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#50108762) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:59 PM Author: Floppy dilemma legal warrant just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906074) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:31 AM Author: cerebral parlour Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried some ai bullshit and it’s not as good as chat cpt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906529) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: sinister hot mexican probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipulating: -- "we want our own airgapped model specifically tuned and trained in the following ways" -- "you won't have any ongoing compute cost for this because it'll be on our own hardware -- fire and forget revenue infusion for you" -- "this isn't creating opportunity cost for you because we can't use your API model anyway due to client restrictions (e.g. IP litigation tech clients won't let any material be run through frontier LLMs)"
probably worth a pitch because AI niggers need MONEY |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:22 PM Author: Talented gay senate They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash based on its current market cap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906593) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: sinister hot mexican which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate that they could at least get a meeting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906619) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:51 PM Author: Talented gay senate It would if their problem is making more $ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907213) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:55 AM Author: up-to-no-good heady parlor puppy Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906555) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Talented gay senate That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more overcooked than any SAAS provider in any industry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906583) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: coiffed lake mad cow disease laser beams Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkland-specific wrapper on a third-party platform. They want to have more customization and in-house control over shit. They'll have it trained on more in-house work product. They'll be able to integrate with ediscovery vendors and the like. They'll solve some of the confidentiality concerns. It's not "inventing AI" or some dumb shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906601) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: azure kitchen pocket flask an AI that is, on balance, in balance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906618) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:46 PM Author: sinister hot mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906621) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:51 PM Author: Mewling Forum Pervert 100% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907043) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Bull headed awkward set This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do all of this with a Harvey AI sub at a small fraction of the price. They could also create some customization for Claude and spend even less. The only way to spend $500 million on this is pure incompetence or theft. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907810) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users using open weight models, with full time support staff, would be maybe $10mm yr tops. They could do it for $5 million/yr I bet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907840) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:09 PM Author: harnessman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#50108696) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:36 PM Author: sexy sable party of the first part nursing home I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906607) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:11 PM Author: Mega Feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#50108703) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:49 PM Author: Coral Point Becky so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to invest in this. they must have ran the numbers and decided the potential associate savings were worth it. pretty scary stuff for young lawyers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906627) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:55 PM Author: azure kitchen pocket flask even scarier stuff for service partners rofl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906641) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:56 PM Author: Coral Point Becky yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the service partners will be docked down to associate pay levels and the equity partners will fucking ball out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906643) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 2:59 PM Author: Slap-happy khaki nibblets I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who survive this will ball out even more than they already are balling out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906805) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:01 PM Author: Charcoal liquid oxygen This is Huge. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906653) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM Author: Indigo temple sneaky criminal *creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirkland brand Extra Virgin Olive Oil depending upon predicted customer behaviors* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906662) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:19 PM Author: Boyish Buff Spot JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just advertising to dumbfuck GCs. They might as well have said $1 BILLION to be doubly impressive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906819) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Irradiated cobalt boltzmann sanctuary that's all these announcements ever are and people keep falling for it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906832) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:47 PM Author: Charcoal liquid oxygen Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907032) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907018) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: Violet vivacious keepsake machete locale nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906822) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Shivering Spruce Famous Landscape Painting Cuck Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkland's AI law slop dispenser (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906841) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:56 PM Author: cerebral parlour Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we thought of was Costco. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907711) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 4:00 PM Author: disrespectful really tough guy This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more than that on tokens and AI licenses anyway given the nature of their business. Not really news IMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906858) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: Bull headed awkward set They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on this if they just went with an existing solution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907815) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:49 PM Author: Mewling Forum Pervert I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907039) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:49 PM Author: crystalline public bath digit ratio No litigator AIs, please (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907209) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: Rusted marvelous immigrant shrine why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you telling me a team of 10 or so capable software engineers couldn’t build whatever Kirkland wants it to do for that much? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907238) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:57 PM Author: cerebral parlour Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for everyone and tell them to use chat GPT.
Also I’m guessing we’re gonna start having shit like Kirkland Costco (powered by ChatGPT) very soon. |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: Bull headed awkward set ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on Claude) or Gemini are all fine. You can get enterprise subs with terms that will care for confidentiality concerns. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907812) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:52 PM Author: Vibrant plum corn cake Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its infancy and no one has actually cured the hallucination problem, or the randomly-speaking-chinese problem, or the "it doesn't understand human psychology" problem. All of these platforms are still dogshit right now. They can't even OCR well. There are SAAS companies advertising cloud OCR platforms to law firms, and they brag that they do NOT use AI.
There's also no benefit to training an AI on client data vs transforming client data into vector databases. In fact it it's worse, because every time there's a new development you have to retrain the model, rather than just updating some vector database of client files. And vector databases cost nothing to deploy and maintain. This really looks like fake news to me and I don't understand why Kirkland announced this to Thomson Reuters |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:12 PM Author: .- .-. . .-. . .--. - .. .-.. . Claude is literally perfect. Investing even one cent in something proprietary when Claude is already this good is just lighting money on fire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#50108707) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Yeshua Teitelbaum, Secretary of Interior ((zurich is stained)) my former firm, bottom-of-the-barrel "biglaw" firm baker hostetler, had some kind of automated "associate" several years ago, named "eric" or "bob" or something. no idea what it did, but given where the technology was back then it was probably laughably bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#50108747) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:23 PM Author: "'"''""""' Don't care as long as their toilet paper stays cheap. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#50108760) |