OpenAI-backed legal tech firm pivots to Chinese Kimi K3 open-weight model

SCMP TechAugust 21, 2026en

A US artificial intelligence start-up backed by OpenAI has built its first in-house model on Chinese lab Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, highlighting a growing shift by Western tech firms towards Chinese open-weight systems amid soaring development costs. San Francisco-based legal tech provider Harvey, whose high-profile backers also include Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, said on Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on top of the open-weight Kimi K3 base. The company said...

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