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Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic

Thomson Reuters launches Thomson, a proprietary LLM built on Alibaba's Qwen, costing $40M. The model only shows top benchmark scores when augmented with the company's own content like Westlaw. CTO Joel Hron argues owning strategic AI capabilities matters more than renting models from OpenAI or Anthropic.

The Decoder·Aug 24, 2026

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