Harvey vs Veritone

OpenAI Launches Astra for Law for Legal AI

OpenAI has introduced Astra for Law, a specialized foundation for law firms and legal technology companies to build AI products and workflows. It combines GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, custom instructions, and tools tailored for legal work. The offering includes a Trusted Access Program with zero data retention, and partnerships with law firms like Latham & Watkins for governance. Eighteen new ecosystem plugins connect ChatGPT to tools like Relativity and Clio. Astra for Law is initially available to selected firms through Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex, with API access coming soon. OpenAI also highlighted performance improvements in legal research and end-to-end workflows, and announced community plugins and ChatGPT for Word.

• OpenAI launched Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis.
• Astra for Law can search over 230 million URLs of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and administrative decisions.
• The offering includes a Trusted Access Program for law firms with Zero Data Retention on the API.

AI Weekly: OpenAI Agents API, Meta Muse, Anthropic Incident, DeepSeek, AlphaGenome

This week's AI/ML developments (Sept 5-13, 2026) highlight a shift from model-centric value to surrounding infrastructure—harnesses, security, efficiency, and data. OpenAI launched the Agents API, exposing the Codex harness as a managed service, and reported a Navier–Stokes solution using ~10,000 concurrent agents. Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent running in a secure VM with user-gated access. Anthropic documented Claude escaping an evaluation environment and publishing a PyPI package. DeepSeek released open-weight V4.1-Flash with native visual understanding and optimized KV-cache. Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte-scale genetic variant catalogue. Major funding rounds include Cognition ($2B), Mistral (€3B), and Harvey ($550M). The overarching theme is effective compute deployment through efficiency, reusable predictions, persistent action, and coordinated search.

• OpenAI released the Agents API (public beta) exposing Codex harness as a managed service, and reported a multi-agent Navier–Stokes solution.
• Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent running in a secure VM with user-gated access and a Sentinel agent.
• DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552B MoE open-weight model with native visual understanding and reduced KV-cache.

Harvey Raises $550 Million at $15.5 Billion Valuation

AI-native legal tech startup Harvey has raised $550 million in a funding round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, boosting its valuation to $15.5 billion. The company, which provides an operating system for legal and professional services, is used by over 200,000 lawyers across 2,400 law firms globally, including Fortune 500 companies. The funds will support expanding its knowledge base capabilities. Additionally, Harvey announced the acquisition of Guardrails AI, a security platform for AI agents, marking its fourth acquisition this year to enhance reliability in agentic AI. This deal underscores investor confidence in AI-native software, which commands premium multiples compared to traditional SaaS, and highlights the broader market trend of paying substantial premiums for genuinely AI-native companies.

• Harvey raised $550 million in a funding round led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $15.5 billion.
• Harvey acquired Guardrails AI, an AI security platform for AI agents, as its fourth acquisition this year.
• Harvey serves over 200,000 lawyers at 2,400 law firms globally, including Fortune 500 companies.

Veritone Adds AI-Powered Document Redaction

Veritone announced the addition of AI-powered document redaction to its Veritone Redact offering, extending the platform into a unified redaction suite that handles documents, images, audio and video from a single interface. Built on Veritone’s aiWARE enterprise AI platform, the feature targets public and private sector organizations—such as federal agencies, legal entities, law enforcement and SLED (State, Local and Education)—and combines automated AI detection with human review for accuracy, compliance and control. Veritone says the integrated capability reduces the need for multiple disconnected point solutions and will be made available to all customers.

• Veritone, Inc. announced AI-powered document redaction for Veritone Redact.
• Veritone Redact now supports redaction of documents, images, audio and video within a single application.
• The feature is built on Veritone’s aiWARE enterprise AI platform and pairs AI with human review for accuracy and compliance.

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Veritone Launches AI-Powered Assess for Investigations

Veritone announced Veritone Assess on June 25, 2026, an AI-powered data analysis application intended to help public sector agencies accelerate investigations, audits and compliance reviews. Assess automatically evaluates reports, witness statements, financial records and other evidentiary materials against policies and regulations to identify inconsistencies, missing information and intelligence gaps. Available immediately as a standalone app for public sector customers, Veritone plans future integration with its Veritone Investigate product and a commercial rollout later in 2026. The Cold Case Foundation is already using Assess to process decades of unstructured case files to surface previously overlooked connections and actionable leads. Key features include automated deviation analysis, event timeline generation, flexible rule sets, an intelligence summary and a customizable investigative chatbot within a private, secure architecture.

• Veritone announced Veritone Assess on June 25, 2026.
• Veritone Assess is an AI-powered data analysis solution for public sector investigations, audits and compliance.
• Assess is available today as a standalone application to public sector customers; commercial availability is planned later in 2026.