Harvey, the legal AI company whose valuation recently hit $11 billion, recently released what it is calling the Legal Agent Benchmark, or LAB — an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure how well AI agents can perform extended, real-world legal work rather than the discrete reasoning tasks that have dominated legal AI benchmarks to date.
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