OpenAI takes aim at the legal market with Astra for Law
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OpenAI has introduced Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model designed for legal work. The product combines the model with a legal search index and instructions for analysis and writing. That index searches US case law, statutes, and regulations across more than 230 million URLs, drawing on data from the Free Law Project, which says it covers over 99.9 percent of published US precedents. In a test OpenAI ran itself using Vals AI's Legal Research Bench, Astra for Law passed 54 percent of 200 questions, compared with 38.7 percent for GPT-6 Astra using plain web search. OpenAI says API customers such as Harvey and Legora can build on the system. Law firms are offered a Trusted Access program with privacy controls including zero data retention, and OpenAI is also launching 26 plugins for tools such as Relativity and Clio. The company is not alone in this area, as Anthropic is also expanding its presence in the legal work market.
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