[Not Wanting to Be Strangled by OpenAI and Anthropic, the Second Largest U.S. Law Firm Buys GPUs to Build Its Own AI System] Beating AI News Flash: The second largest U.S. law firm, Latham & Watkins, has started purchasing NVIDIA GPUs to run AI models internally. The firm has acquired H200 GPUs and placed the servers in a data center accessible only to its own employees. Engineers are fine-tuning the open-weight model NVIDIA Nemotron 3. This way, the most sensitive client materials do not need to be handed over to external cloud providers. Commercial models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini will still be used, allowing lawyers to choose different models based on the task. This is the first publicly disclosed case of a major law firm purchasing AI hardware and fine-tuning models on its own. Latham has been preparing this system for three years, ensuring it has an alternative path that does not rely on single suppliers like OpenAI or Anthropic. [Original Link]