Extract from Rhys Dipshan’s article “Law Firms, Legal Tech Providers Embrace Agentic AI At Record Pace”
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The Shift: Law Firms, Legal Tech Providers Embrace Agentic AI At Record Pace
While gen AI entered the legal mainstream in record time, agentic AI seems to have broken all records. Since the beginning of the year, a host of agentic AI legal tech tools have come to market, while a growing number of law firms are fast developing proprietary agentic AI platforms for their attorneys and clients alike.
To be sure, agentic AI isn’t a new type of AI modeI, just a more capable and extended version of the technology—if one thinks of gen AI as an electric engine, the entire electric bike is agentic AI.
