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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: Vigorous toaster 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: Crawly laughsome trust fund party of the first part seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49905901) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: Vigorous toaster Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49905907) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: arousing hospital coldplay fan 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: Vigorous toaster Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49905910) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:27 AM Author: Titillating Trailer Park Foreskin 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/en-en#49906516) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:29 AM Author: multi-colored slippery meetinghouse background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906522) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: idiotic gunner 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/en-en#49906546) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:47 PM Author: Titillating Trailer Park Foreskin 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/en-en#49906623) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:53 PM Author: idiotic gunner #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/en-en#49906635) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: supple knife location 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/en-en#49906658) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM Author: idiotic gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906663) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:02 PM Author: Swashbuckling Clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906654) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:49 PM Author: pale abnormal brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906829) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:26 PM Author: misanthropic goal in life but dbg assured me he would be safe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906019) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:27 PM Author: Vigorous toaster 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/en-en#49906021) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:47 PM Author: Territorial aqua nursing home 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/en-en#49906055) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:51 PM Author: Crawly laughsome trust fund party of the first part they probably tried claude code and think they can do anything now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906060) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:52 PM Author: Vigorous toaster https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906064) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: Avocado stag film 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: Territorial aqua nursing home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906673) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:35 PM Author: Lilac soul-stirring dilemma 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/en-en#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/en-en#50108762) |
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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:59 PM Author: Tantric citrine lay just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906074) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:31 AM Author: Startled red space milk 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/en-en#49906529) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: Umber Boiling Water Plaza 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: at-the-ready shitlib 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/en-en#49906593) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Umber Boiling Water Plaza 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/en-en#49906619) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:51 PM Author: at-the-ready shitlib It would if their problem is making more $ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49907213) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:55 AM Author: haunting public bath haunted graveyard Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906555) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: at-the-ready shitlib 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/en-en#49906583) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: Chestnut Wrinkle Fortuitous Meteor 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/en-en#49906601) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: idiotic gunner an AI that is, on balance, in balance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906618) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:46 PM Author: Umber Boiling Water Plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906621) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:51 PM Author: adulterous beady-eyed home newt 100% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49907043) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Abusive well-lubricated church 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/en-en#49907810) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: Vigorous toaster 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/en-en#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/en-en#50108696) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:36 PM Author: scarlet international law enforcement agency I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906607) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:11 PM Author: Ass Problems (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#50108703) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:49 PM Author: supple knife location 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/en-en#49906627) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:55 PM Author: idiotic gunner even scarier stuff for service partners rofl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906641) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:56 PM Author: supple knife location 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/en-en#49906643) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 2:59 PM Author: Cerise 180 Station 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/en-en#49906805) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:01 PM Author: chrome personal credit line This is Huge. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906653) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM Author: shivering temple elastic band *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/en-en#49906662) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:19 PM Author: light exhilarant patrolman 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/en-en#49906819) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: self-absorbed gaming laptop lettuce 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/en-en#49906832) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:47 PM Author: chrome personal credit line 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/en-en#49907032) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Vigorous toaster https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49907018) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: topaz people who are hurt nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49906822) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Bisexual self-centered internal respiration 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/en-en#49906841) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:56 PM Author: Startled red space milk 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/en-en#49907711) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 4:00 PM Author: Aphrodisiac domesticated theatre generalized bond 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/en-en#49906858) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: Abusive well-lubricated church 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/en-en#49907815) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:49 PM Author: adulterous beady-eyed home newt 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/en-en#49907039) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:49 PM Author: ruddy azn No litigator AIs, please (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2/en-en#49907209) |
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Date: May 29th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: razzle scourge upon the earth 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/en-en#49907238) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:57 PM Author: Startled red space milk 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: Abusive well-lubricated church 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/en-en#49907812) |
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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:52 PM Author: Vigorous toaster 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/en-en#50108707) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 12:21 PM Author: the national labor relations act ((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/en-en#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/en-en#50108760) |