The legal AI boom just lured a researcher out of Meta's Superintelligence Lab
Source: Business Insider ·
Ethem Coban worked on teaching Meta's AI models to reason through legal questions. Since leaving the lab, he's had talks to raise for a new startup.
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Josh Edelson/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOne of Meta's AI researchers left the company this month to start a legal tech company.Ethem Coban worked on teaching Meta's language models to reason through legal questions.Since then, he's had talks to raise $6 million in funding for a startup, according to a person familiar.The legal industry's artificial intelligence gold rush is luring talent from Silicon Valley's biggest labs.Ethem Coban, a researcher at Meta, left the company earlier this month to launch a legal tech startup, according to a person familiar with the matter. Coban, who worked on teaching Meta's language models to reason through legal questions, has been in talks to raise $6 million at a $25 million valuation.Talks are still early, and the terms of the deal could change.The startup is the latest entrant in an increasingly crowded legal tech market. Long seen as laggards, lawyers have spent the past two years experimenting with tools built on large language models. Early…