OpenAI takes aim at the legal market with Astra for Law
OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a GPT-6-based legal research product with a 230-million-URL US case law index, scoring 54% on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench.
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, pairing its GPT-6 Astra model with a legal search index covering US case law, statutes, and regulations across more than 230 million URLs, built on Free Law Project data said to cover over 99.9% of published US precedents. In OpenAI's self-run test using Vals AI's Legal Research Bench, Astra for Law passed 54% of 200 questions versus 38.7% for GPT-6 Astra with plain web search. API customers Harvey and Legora can build on the product, law firms get a Trusted Access program with zero data retention, and 26 plugins launched for tools including Relativity and Clio. Anthropic is also expanding its presence in legal AI.