- GPT‑6 Astra configured for legal tasks (branded Astra for Law).
- Legal Search Index covering US case law, statutes, regulations and related sources across >230 million URLs.
- 26 partner plugins (examples: Thomson Reuters, iManage, Harvey, Legora, Intapp, DeepJudge) plus nine community plugins and 47 custom skills.
- ChatGPT for Word became generally available the same day.
- Initial access via a Trusted Access programme aimed at selected (Am Law 200) firms through ChatGPT and Codex; API follows later (model id noted as gpt-6-astra-law).
- Trusted Access offers Zero Data Retention on the API for eligible firms and ChatGPT Enterprise usage is excluded from human review by default.
- OpenAI says it is working with law firms (e.g., Latham & Watkins) on ethical walls, permissions and oversight; pricing and exact firm list were not disclosed.
- Combines a frontier model, an indexed legal corpus and vendor connectors—letting vendors (Harvey, Legora) and firms build on OpenAI’s stack.
- May reshape legal research and workflows by embedding retrieval plus model reasoning in one product; complements licensed providers according to OpenAI, but raises questions on governance, provenance and pricing.
- Index currently U.S.-only; expansion and European compliance were not addressed in the announcement.
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