Noxtua, which is described by its developer Xayn as ‘Europe’s first sovereign Legal AI’ – and backed by law firm CMS – is partnering with contract automation and drafting company ClauseBase to provide its LLM capabilities to its clients.
Sounds intriguing, but what is Noxtua? They explain it this way: ‘Noxtua, developed by Xayn with special insights and legal expertise from a consortium of law firms including international law firm CMS, is a specialized AI solution designed to assist legal professionals in legal research as well as analyzing, reviewing, summarizing, translating, and drafting legal documents.’
‘Noxtua distinguishes itself in the Generative AI landscape because it is trained exclusively on legal data selected and labelled by legal experts. It is also one of the only solutions on the market made completely in Europe, with particular attention being paid to its unique privacy and security requirements.’
Another player in Europe is Paris-based Equal, which has developed a series of legal LLMs – see story here.
The Noxtua integration will be available to clients with access to ClauseBase’s MS Word add-in ClauseBuddy.
‘By embedding Noxtua into ClauseBase’s platform, users will benefit from AI-driven insights and automation, streamlining the drafting process and reducing the potential for errors,’ the companies said.
Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, CEO & Co-Founder Xayn, commented: ‘European digital sovereignty has never been more important than right now. As an AI company with a strong focus on European values, we’re excited to partner with ClauseBase. We really like how ClauseBase has built its AI integrations on the ideal dividing line between what is best handled by the human and what is best handled by the machine. We’re happy to be able to power that perfect fit and we will join forces to further foster specialized Legal AI solutions ‘Made In Europe’.’
While Maarten Truyens, CEO & Co-Founder of ClauseBase, concluded: ‘ClauseBase was founded by former IT lawyers, so compliance has always been in our DNA. We strongly believe in the value of European sovereignty that Xayn stands for. That makes our collaboration with Xayn a perfect fit. We knew that Xayn goes the extra mile on these topics, but we were also impressed by the quality of Noxtua’s outputs. Truly a best of both worlds scenario.’
So, there you go.
Whether the market wants a specialised Europe-based genAI offering, as opposed to using more general ones, remains to be seen, but their argument about European privacy requirements may appeal to some clients.