Legal AI unicorn Harvey adopts Chinese open-source models to reduce costs
- Harvey is valued at $15.6 billion.
- Harvey's gross margin dropped from about 50% to -50% by June.
- Harvey updated its AI agent in March, triggering a surge in customer usage.
- Harvey launched its first self-developed model in August, driven by Kimi K3 from Moon of the Dark Side.
- Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst are backing the shift to open-weight/open-source models.