LexisNexis Rolls Out Next Gen of Protégé General AI – Artificial Lawyer

LexisNexis has deployed the next generation of its Protégé General AI. It now offers an updated and expanded range of skills. This includes:

• ‘Unified responses across multiple content sources: With combined insights from client legal documents, open web search, and comprehensive legal content from LexisNexis, Protégé simplifies legal work into a seamless experience. Protégé General AI guides the user to authoritative legal AI, where appropriate, based on the nature of the user’s question or task.
• Best Fit mode with user control: An intelligent model selector defaults to the optimal AI model for the user’s task, or users can manually choose their preferred model.
• Reliable Quotes: by Shepard Citation controls and labeled sources allow legal professionals to work with confidence.
• Flexible source selection: Users can choose to anchor Protégé responses in all or any combination of LexisNexis, web, and client content.
• Advanced reasoning and in-depth research skills: Users can resolve highly complex legal issues and enable deep search capabilities for even more advanced reasoning.
• Security and privacy by design: The fully encrypted Lexis+ AI environment ensures enterprise-grade data privacy protection for secure access to general-purpose models.
• Simplified experience: A simplified interface consolidates questions, sources, citations and drafts for a more efficient and transparent workflow.

Sean FitzpatrickCEO of LexisNexis North America, UK and Ireland, commented: “Legal professionals want a reliable legal AI workflow solution. Only LexisNexis can bring together agentic intelligence, client documents, open web insights, and our authoritative content to produce next-level legal projects and work results supported by Shepard’s.‘

This next-generation version comes shortly after the October commercial launch of Protégé General AI.

AL asked Lexis what it was specifically different from what existed before. They said: “There are several key updates since the initial launch of Protégé General AI:

1. Underlying platform with a new agentic infrastructure that enables AI agents to collaborate and reason through complex legal AI workflows that require a deep understanding of diverse data sources. Agents can plan dynamically, follow multi-step workflows, and handle complex issues without losing context. This is an evolution of traditional RAG-based systems.
2. General AI now manages various data sources, including LexisNexis content + open web content + customer content. The user can select the source of the content.
3. “Best Fit” mode which automatically selects the model best suited to the user’s task.
4. The user can also choose the latest general purpose model available, including the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, as they become available.
5. Users have the option to choose throughout the experience (automatic or manual choice of template as well as content source) for legal projects and higher-level work outputs. In other words, it is currently the most integrated AI workflow solution for legal professionals.

So there you go.

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