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The Data-First AI Strategy: Why Context Beats Fine-Tuning for Law Firms

Fine-tuning a model on the firm's own documents sounds like the shortcut to a bespoke legal AI. It teaches style, not law - and the asset worth owning is the context layer, not the model.

Nov 2, 20268 min read
Dmitry Selivanov
Dmitry Selivanov
The Data-First AI Strategy: Why Context Beats Fine-Tuning for Law Firms
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