Legal AI Arms Race

Harvey ($11B) and Legora ($5.6B) have a combined $17B valuation, but both are built on foundation models that just launched their own legal platforms – with Harvey as a connector inside Claude.

A former Latham associate vibe-coded a Harvey clone in two weeks and open-sourced it. The tech wasn't the hard part – and that's the point. Here's what mid-size firms should learn about what legal AI vendors actually sell.

Anthropic launched Claude for Legal with 12 practice-area plugins and 20+ MCP connectors – positioning Claude as the hub that legal tech plugs into, not just the model underneath it.

OpenAI's Astra for Law and Anthropic's Claude for Legal work with many of the same legal vendors, but OpenAI builds the legal knowledge into the harness while Anthropic ships it as skills and connectors you can edit, and neither vendor compared itself to the other's real setup.