OpenAI launched Astra for Law today, and used the Vals Legal Research Bench to validate it.
On OpenAI’s self-reported runs, Astra for Law beats GPT-6 Astra with web search at every price point: 90.0% vs 84.1% weighted rubric and 53.7% vs 39.6% all-pass.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
Gives concrete, benchmarked evidence of how much a purpose-built legal research AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → outperforms a general web-search agent, useful for engineers deciding between vertical and general-purpose agents.
