Since Thomson Reuters acquired legal research company Casetext last summer, it has gradually been incorporating the startup’s headline-grabbing AI legal assistant CoCounsel, the first legal tech tool to publicly confirm using OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM), into its broader workflows. Previously, CoCounsel functioned essentially as a chatbot in various Thomson Reuters legal offerings, and has also been offered as a standalone product called CoCounsel Core, available without a Westlaw subscription.
On Wednesday, Thomson Reuters announced that it is now not only further expanding the legal capabilities of CoCounsel again, but also expanding the reach of the generative AI assistant beyond legal “to every professional it serves,” according to a press release. This includes applying CoCounsel to the company’s tax, risk, fraud and media verticals.
