Here’s how Thomson Reuters is loosening Claude’s costly grip0

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• August 24, 2026

The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese open-source model to do it. Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, and it’s based on Snowdon, which was built by “realigning” an open-source Qwen model from the