LexisNexis Rolls Out Next Gen of Protégé General AI

LexisNexis has rolled out the next generation of its Protégé General AI. It now delivers a range of updated and expanded skills. This includes:

• ‘Unified answers across multiple content sources: With combined insights from customer legal documents, open web search, and LexisNexis comprehensive legal content, Protégé simplifies legal work in a seamless experience. Protégé General AI guides the user to authoritative Legal AI when appropriate, based on the nature of the user’s question or task.
• Best Fit mode with user control: An intelligent model switcher selects the optimal AI model for the user’s task by default, or users can manually choose their preferred model.
• Trusted citations: Shepard’s Citation checks and labeled sources let legal professionals work with confidence.
• Flexible source selection: Users can choose to ground Protégé responses in all or any combination of LexisNexis, web, and customer content.
• Advanced reasoning and Deep Research capabilities: Users can address high-complexity legal problems and toggle Deep Research capabilities for even more advanced reasoning.
• Security and Privacy by Design: The fully encrypted Lexis+ AI environment ensures enterprise-grade data privacy protections for confident access to general purpose models.
• Streamlined experience: A simplified interface keeps questions, sources, citations, and drafts together for a more efficient, transparent workflow.’

Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland, commented: ‘Legal professionals want one trusted legal AI workflow solution. Only LexisNexis can bring together agentic intelligence, customer documents, open web insights, and our authoritative content to produce next-level legal drafts and work output backed by Shepard’s.’

This next-generation release arrives shortly after the October commercial launch of Protégé General AI.

AL asked Lexis what is specifically different to what came before. They said: ‘There are several key updates from the initial launch of Protégé General AI:

1. Underlying platform with a new Agentic infrastructure that lets AI agents collaborate and reason through complex legal AI workflows that demand broad understanding from diverse data sources. Agents can dynamically plan, follow multi-step workflows and handle complex problems without losing context. This is an evolution of traditional RAG-based systems.
2. General AI now handles diverse data sources including LexisNexis content + open web content + customer content. The user can select the content source.
3. “Best Fit” mode that automatically selects the best model for the user’s task.
4. Or, user can choose the latest available general-purpose model – including latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and others as they become available.
5. Users are empowered with choice through the entire experience – either automated or manual model choice as well as the content source – for next-level legal drafts and work output. In other words – it’s the most integrated AI workflow solution now for legal professionals.’

So, there you go.

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