Harvey’s origin story traces back to a cold email to OpenAI

[cryptoenthusiast]

Harvey’s rise in legal AI began with an experiment — and a cold email to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg, then a first-year associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and co-founder Gabe Pereyra tested GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions sourced from Reddit. When attorneys reviewed the AI-generated answers, two-thirds said they would send 86 out of 100 responses without edits.

The duo emailed Altman on July 4, 2022, secured a call the same day, and soon received their first investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund, which remains Harvey’s second-largest investor. Weinberg said that moment convinced them the legal industry was ready for transformation through AI.

[johnblockbuster]

lol cold-emailing sam altman on july 4 and actually getting a call same day… that’s peak startup energy