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Kirkland says it's spending $500 MILLION to build its own in-house AI

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already? http...
Dan Bilzerian
  05/28/26
seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked
,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,...
  05/28/26
Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison
Dan Bilzerian
  05/28/26
Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on inf...
Ass Sunstein
  05/28/26
Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head
Dan Bilzerian
  05/28/26
LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like ...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  05/29/26
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need tokens
  05/29/26
au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brian...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  05/29/26
Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation water...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  05/29/26
#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Mond...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  05/29/26
but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months ...
UhOh
  05/29/26
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...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  05/29/26
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Giant Naked Hitler
  05/29/26
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Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption
  05/29/26
but dbg assured me he would be safe
Shema Yisrael
  05/28/26
Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoardin...
Dan Bilzerian
  05/28/26
this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best ...
Kenneth Play
  05/28/26
they probably tried claude code and think they can do anythi...
,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,...
  05/28/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
Dan Bilzerian
  05/28/26
Fucking 180 Claude, run a 50 State search for "summa...
&c
  05/29/26
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Kenneth Play
  05/29/26
It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll ma...
LathamTouchedMe
  05/29/26
just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog
Cletus Van Damme
  05/28/26
Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried s...
346
  05/29/26
probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipu...
STEPHEN MILLER
  05/29/26
They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash ...
TurboGrafx-67
  05/29/26
which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate...
STEPHEN MILLER
  05/29/26
Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol
average/ordinary/typical citizen/person
  05/29/26
That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more over...
TurboGrafx-67
  05/29/26
Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkla...
lfo
  05/29/26
an AI that is, on balance, in balance
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  05/29/26
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STEPHEN MILLER
  05/29/26
I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI
Judas Jones
  05/29/26
so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to inves...
UhOh
  05/29/26
even scarier stuff for service partners rofl
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  05/29/26
yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the servi...
UhOh
  05/29/26
I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who surviv...
artificial intelligence
  05/29/26
This is Huge.
cowgod
  05/29/26
*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirklan...
'"'"'"''"
  05/29/26
JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just ...
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  05/29/26
that's all these announcements ever are and people keep fall...
OYT and the Indie Reprieve
  05/29/26
nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship
Debunked antisemitic trope
  05/29/26
Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkla...
So we looked at the data
  05/29/26
This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more ...
Madison Avenue Lemming Enslaved to Conformity
  05/29/26


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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: Dan Bilzerian

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/law-firm-kirkland-spend-500-million-developing-its-own-ai-platform-2026-05-28/

Just a chill $625k per lawyer going to Jensen Huang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49905873)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:33 PM
Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,...


seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49905901)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: Dan Bilzerian

Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49905907)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein

Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on information from 250 Kirkland lawyers ​and would involve more than 180 technology professionals inside and outside the firm.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49905906)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: Dan Bilzerian

Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49905910)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( )

LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like 4,000 other attorneys whose brains aren’t worthy of being digitized. What a fucking indictment, holy shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906516)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: need tokens



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906522)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:48 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brians digitized. the service partners whose brains have now been digitized are now on the chopping block.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906546)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:47 PM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( )

Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation waterfall, and tax McKirkland “partners” who have each spent a 60K hours over the last 20 years grinding out the same repetitive 5.7/9.8 drafting and negotiation tasks who are getting digitized. And they’re terminally non-equity, so they’re not sharing in any of the upside of this shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906623)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:53 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Monday at 9am so we can digitize your brain and fire you. Thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906635)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: UhOh

but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months to record everything they do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906658)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906663)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: Giant Naked Hitler (hitler did nothing wrong)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906654)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption ( )



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906829)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:26 PM
Author: Shema Yisrael

but dbg assured me he would be safe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906019)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: Dan Bilzerian

Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoarding $500 million all this time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906021)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:47 PM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best general purpose AI model, will also make the best AI model for the law. it's not like kirkland will manage to make anything better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906055)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:51 PM
Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,...


they probably tried claude code and think they can do anything now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906060)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:52 PM
Author: Dan Bilzerian

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906064)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:03 PM
Author: &c

Fucking 180

Claude, run a 50 State search for "summary judgment standard" thank

Now do the same task 800 times per week thank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906570)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:09 PM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906673)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:35 PM
Author: LathamTouchedMe

It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll market it as "The Kirkland Difference"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906605)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:59 PM
Author: Cletus Van Damme

just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906074)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:31 AM
Author: 346

Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried some ai bullshit and it’s not as good as chat cpt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906529)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM
Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon)

probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipulating:

-- "we want our own airgapped model specifically tuned and trained in the following ways"

-- "you won't have any ongoing compute cost for this because it'll be on our own hardware -- fire and forget revenue infusion for you"

-- "this isn't creating opportunity cost for you because we can't use your API model anyway due to client restrictions (e.g. IP litigation tech clients won't let any material be run through frontier LLMs)"

probably worth a pitch because AI niggers need MONEY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906543)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: TurboGrafx-67

They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash based on its current market cap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906593)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon)

which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate that they could at least get a meeting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906619)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person

Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906555)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:16 PM
Author: TurboGrafx-67

That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more overcooked than any SAAS provider in any industry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906583)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: lfo

Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkland-specific wrapper on a third-party platform. They want to have more customization and in-house control over shit. They'll have it trained on more in-house work product. They'll be able to integrate with ediscovery vendors and the like. They'll solve some of the confidentiality concerns. It's not "inventing AI" or some dumb shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906601)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


an AI that is, on balance, in balance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906618)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:46 PM
Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906621)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:36 PM
Author: Judas Jones

I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906607)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: UhOh

so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to invest in this. they must have ran the numbers and decided the potential associate savings were worth it. pretty scary stuff for young lawyers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906627)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:55 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


even scarier stuff for service partners rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906641)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:56 PM
Author: UhOh

yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the service partners will be docked down to associate pay levels and the equity partners will fucking ball out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906643)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: artificial intelligence

I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who survive this will ball out even more than they already are balling out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906805)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:01 PM
Author: cowgod

This is Huge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906653)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: '"'"'"''"

*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirkland brand Extra Virgin Olive Oil depending upon predicted customer behaviors*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906662)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just advertising to dumbfuck GCs. They might as well have said $1 BILLION to be doubly impressive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906819)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( )

that's all these announcements ever are and people keep falling for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906832)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: Debunked antisemitic trope

nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906822)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: So we looked at the data

Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkland's AI law slop dispenser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906841)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 4:00 PM
Author: Madison Avenue Lemming Enslaved to Conformity

This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more than that on tokens and AI licenses anyway given the nature of their business. Not really news IMO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2).#49906858)