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▶ 7:17 · $OPENAI · Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI
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Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI

2026-06-19 · 4 company · 0 thematic
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gabe pereyra

Co-founder and president of Harvey, an AI platform for legal and professional services. Previously a research scientist at DeepMind and a machine-learning engineer at Meta.

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“if you just use anthropic or you just use open AI um you run into conflict risk. So imagine you're using only anthropics models as a law firm and you want to represent Open AI. OpenAI is not going to let you send their sensitive legal data…”
—gabe pereyra

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