Thomson Reuters builds a Claude alternative on Chinese Qwen

Thomson Reuters has started transferring some of its legal AI tasks from Anthropic’s Claude to Thomson-1, which is an in-house model that uses Chinese open-source technology. This change is expected to reduce its costs, but at the same time raises another question concerning the security of using Chinese AI solutions in the uncertain environment of the industry.

According to Business Insider, Thomson-1 will reportedly carry out the document-review procedures that Claude undertook before this. Legal professionals, accountants, and various companies using CoCounsel and similar products probably won’t notice any significant changes in their operations. However, the most telling signal is the fact that the Western information company trusts the capabilities of the Chinese model that has undergone serious adjustments in-house.

Cheaper than Claude, by design

Expenses played an essential role in this case. CTO Joel Hron explained to Business Insider that the high prices charged by such labs as Anthropic and OpenAI inspired Thomson Reuters to consider the development of its own model. By developing its own model, the firm can leverage its IP rather than pay for service subs from third parties.

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