Now that the base open weights AI models are getting far better, and post training infra is becoming more mature and commercialized, there are going to be all new plays for companies that have large amounts of data to have their own models.
Licensing data for external model
CRAZIEST AI story of the week.
Thomson Reuters just launched an LLM called Thomson.
It starts with Qwen3.5-397B, then is continually trained on 175 years of proprietary legal, tax, accounting, and news data.
They spent $40M on it.
Two years ago, Thomson Reuters bought a









