Gabe Pereyra was an AI researcher at Google Brain and DeepMind before most people had heard of either. He was on Meta’s large language model team when GPT-2 and GPT-3 dropped. He obtained early access to GPT-4 and utilized it to co-found Harvey with his then roommate Winston Weinberg, a junior litigator at O’Melveny & Myers.
The buzzy legal AI startup, which is backed by Sequoia and OpenAI, now operates in more than 60 countries, including Australia where it opened an office in September last year and already has a team of 20.
So as markets panic about whether AI will devour the software industest — with tech stocks sliding, enterprise SaaS under pressure and Anthropic’s launch of a legal plugin fuelling fresh anxiety about vertical disruption — Pereyra is unusually well placed to weigh in.
Speaking to Capital Brief in Sydney on the final day of his Australian visit last week, his view is more calibrated than the headlines suggest. He feels both the enormity of the shift, and its limitations.
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