The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese open-source model to do it.
Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, and it’s based on Snowdon, which was built by “realigning” an open-source Qwen model from the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, its chief technology officer Joel Hron said. Open-source means anyone can download the models for free and adjust them as they please.
Thomson-1 will take over some tasks previously handled by Claude, although Hron said that it’s not intended to replace the company’s work with Anthropic and other labs…
