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The company spent $40 million to build Thomson, which is based on an open-source model from Chinese tech giant Alibaba
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Thomson Reuters launched its first in-house large language model on Monday, a move the company says will reduce its reliance on outside AI providers, including Anthropic.
According to Business Insider, Thomson sits atop Snowdon, an intermediate model that Thomson Reuters built by reworking Qwen, an open-source offering from Chinese tech giant Alibaba. A joint team from Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London adapted Qwen over several months to ensure it was "ethically and politically de-biased and safe to use," Chief Technology Officer Joel Hron said.
