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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 20, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Ships Astra for Law With Its Own Legal Index and a 54% Score on Vals AI's Legal Research Benchmark
The same model using ordinary web search at the highest reasoning setting scored 38.7%, and the index spans more than 230 million legal URLs.
OpenAI released Astra for Law on September 17. It is GPT-6 Astra configured with a purpose-built legal search index, instructions tuned for legal analysis and drafting, and administrative controls aimed at law firms. The index covers United…
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