Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers to set up in-house AI systems
Major law firm ditches the cloud: Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers to run custom open-weight models in-house.
Why it matters
Enterprise shift from API-first to on-prem AI infrastructure. A marquee professional-services firm is investing in capex and custom models rather than relying on OpenAI/Anthropic — a signal that on-prem economics are winning for regulated, data-sensitive workloads.
The key facts
8 to knowLatham & Watkins purchasing Nvidia servers for on-premise deployment
Firm customizing open-weight models instead of using OpenAI/Anthropic APIs
Data-sensitive legal work driving shift to on-prem infrastructure
Enterprise move from cloud API consumption to capex-based hardware ownership
Latham & Watkins purchasing Nvidia servers for in-house deployment
Law firm customizing open-weight models instead of relying on OpenAI/Anthropic APIs
On-prem AI strategy in legal services sector
Alternative to proprietary cloud-hosted models
Go to the source
Financial Times Technologyft.com
Publisher excerpt: Law firm is customising open-weight models as alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic