[Is Harvey and friends killing my signal, lmao the video drops but we press on in AUDIO].
Three HUGE Developments Breaking Over The Weekend, Detail and Commentary
Mike (or MikeOS) drops. A vibe coded operating system by an experienced attorney which promises to DIRECTLY REPLICATE what Harvey and Legora do ON SITE OPEN SOURCE and the only cost is your own API calls to your Claude or Gemini “pennies instead of thousands of dollars.”
Microsoft Takes Knife to Word-Native Harvey. In a surprising move, nor surprising, Microsoft Friday suddenly announces its own in-Word legal draft tool, without mention of Harvey. Predict they will devour Harvey function over 12-24 months.
Big Finance Eats Harvey Big Play in Private Equity. News today MONDAY [5/4] ANTHROPIC ties up with INVESTMENT GIANTS BLACKROCK GOLDMAN SACHS HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN in a 1.5 B deal to roll out AI to private equity firms. Who in p.e. will buy (OpenAI) Harvey over Goldman Sachs?
MIKE
“Meet Mike: the $0 open-source legal AI that just made Harvey ($11B) and Legora ($5.5B+) look costly and useless. One ex Law associate built it in two weeks. It delivers the exact core features these unicorns sell for millions: AI assistants that draft/edit contracts, project workspaces, table-based reviews across hundreds of docs with perfect citations, reusable workflows - all running on your own Claude or Gemini keys. Self-hosted, fully auditable, and data never leaves your firm.
Why this is groundbreaking?
Zero licensing cost: only pay for API calls (pennies vs. $3k–$4k per lawyer/year)
Ironclad security: everything stays behind your firewall. No uploading sensitive files to a startup’s servers
Democratizes Big Law tech: small firms, in-house teams, and solos get feature parity overnight.”
MICROSOFT MURDERS HARVEY IN WORD FRIDAY NIGHT
[Brad Smith is MSFT]
BIG-FI EATS HARVEY IN FINANCE
