Daxte Builds LegalMap, a Generative AI Search Tool for French Legal Documents, on AWS

Overview

French startup Daxte built LegalMap, one of the first French generative AI solutions for legal documents, on AWS. The company fine-tuned open-source LLMs such as Llama2 7b on Amazon SageMaker, used Amazon Textract to digitize 30 years' worth of legal documents, and changed names, addresses and other sensitive information to remain GDPR compliant. As of December 2023 LegalMap had a dataset of nearly 125 million documents, and in 2023 Daxte worked with Data Reply France to optimize training costs by migrating to AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia.

The challenge

LegalMap needed to scan 30 years' worth of legal documents, digitizing them for its AI models to use, so that it could search French legal documents and systematically source answers from millions of documents.

The solution

Daxte built LegalMap, a generative AI search solution for French legal documents, on AWS. The team fine-tuned open-source large language models such as Llama2 7b from Hugging Face with its own datasets on Amazon SageMaker, and used Amazon Textract to accurately scan and digitize the legal documents. In 2023, Daxte worked with Data Reply France, an AWS Partner, to optimize training costs by migrating from GPU resources to AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. When preparing the data for generative AI, LegalMap changed names, addresses and other sensitive information to remain GDPR compliant.

Reported business value

As of December 2023, LegalMap had a dataset of nearly 125 million documents comprising legal, financial and marketing data. Daxte is launching LegalMap in September 2024 with its first service, Watch, for real-time information monitoring and alerts for legal firms across France, and estimates that LegalMap will scan 600 million documents by 2026.