Introducing "Noxtua," Europe's first sovereign legal AI
AI startup Xayn and international law firm CMS have partnered to help lawyers harness the power of generative AI
Lawyers can use Noxtua to analyze, review, and summarize legal texts
Noxtua specializes in legal texts and meets the high requirements of legal professional secrecy and data protection regulations
Noxtua is a sovereign and secure European alternative to US AI tools
BERLIN, April 2024 – Noxtua, the first sovereign European legal AI with its proprietary Language Model, allows lawyers in corporations and law firms to benefit securely from the advantages of generative AI. The Berlin-based AI startup Xayn and the largest German business law firm CMS are developing Noxtua as a Legal AI with its own Legal Large Language Model and AI assistant. Lawyers from corporations and law firms can use the Noxtua chat to ask questions about legal documents, analyze them, check them for compliance with company guidelines, (re)formulate texts, and have summaries written. The Legal Copilot, which specializes in legal texts, stands out as an independent and secure alternative from Europe to the existing US offerings.
The Legal Copilot Noxtua can be used in various languages with a current focus on German and English. Other languages are already being tested with various large companies in Germany, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries.
To further optimize Noxtua, the self-trained model is already being enriched with further data so that additional languages and functions can be added – e.g. standardized workflows that structure and simplify repetitive work processes such as the automated contract review. Noxtua is designed to make lawyers' everyday work easier and more efficient by reliably assisting them and taking over repetitive tasks.
Perfect match of technological and legal expertise
The collaboration between the AI startup and Germany's largest commercial law firm is a perfect match: The tech startup Xayn, which was founded in 2017 out of a research project at Oxford University and Imperial College London, stands out for its deep AI expertise in developing highly efficient GDPR-compliant AI solutions. CMS provides legal expertise and additional development experience. Among other things, the international law firm specializes in IT and AI law and, as a pioneer in the legal market, also develops its own legal tech applications to support internal and external processes.
Xayn and CMS are jointly developing the AI solution to ensure practical relevance and an understanding of specific legal needs, as well as to meet the high standards of confidentiality in the handling of client data and the statutory data protection regulations. The underlying Legal Large Language Model is trained with legal texts labeled by experts which makes it highly specialized and powerful thanks to CMS' legal and Xayn’s technical expertise and reduces the risk of hallucinations to a minimum. To protect sensitive client information, all data is encrypted. In addition, the self-trained AI solution can run either locally on-premise or on a sovereign European cloud solution.
Leap forward for the German AI and legal industry
"With Noxtua, we are developing sovereign European AI technology with practical relevance. We are thus making a major leap forward for the German AI and legal sector – in line with the European values of transparency and data protection. Our Legal Language Model is highly specialized for legal texts and the interactive chat allows legal professionals to interact easily and intuitively with the Legal Copilot. Noxtua not only makes the day-to-day life of lawyers a lot easier but is also an independent secure alternative from Europe," emphasizes Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, CEO & Co-Founder of Xayn. "With our new AI solution, legal experts in corporations and law firms can therefore work more efficiently and in a more standardized way and invest more time in competent and highly qualified consulting."
"CMS sees itself as a driver of innovation in the legal market. As such, we not only recognize what the future holds but also actively help shaping it. We have identified a gap in the market in the field of AI. Until now, there has been no legal AI that meets our strict requirements in terms of performance, reliability, and data protection," explains Dr. Markus Kaulartz, lawyer for AI and partner at CMS Germany. "That's why, together with Xayn and their many years of AI expertise, we have developed a European legal AI ourselves, based on a proprietary language model that is trained with legal texts. With Noxtua, there is now finally an AI solution that is specifically tailored to the special needs of lawyers and can save them a lot of time in their day-to-day work.”
Planned Alliance for the further development of Noxtua
Xayn and CMS will expand the legal AI Noxtua and develop further practical applications for everyday legal work based on the specially trained Large Language Model in addition to the chat. To this end, the AI startup and the law firm are initiating an alliance with various large companies, law firms, and auditing firms.
Law firms and companies that want to benefit from the advantages of generative AI in a legally compliant manner can now join the waiting list for Noxtua.
More information: www.noxtua.ai
About Xayn
Xayn is a European research-based AI company based in Berlin developing privacy-protecting and energy-efficient AI personalisation. Xayn started as a research project at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London by Leif Nissen Lundbæk, PhD, and Professor Michael Huth. Together with Felix Hahmann, they founded the tech company in 2017. To this day, that academic vision remains with a workforce comprised of more than 30% PhDs. The start-up has received investment funding of 19.5 million EURO from Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Earlybird as well as Dominik Schiener. Xayn has worked with corporations such as Porsche, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, and Siemens.
About CMS
CMS is one of the leading corporate law firms in Germany. More than 700 lawyers, tax advisors and notaries advise clients from major corporations to SMEs and start-ups on all aspects of national and international corporate law. CMS has offices in the eight major business centres in Germany: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. CMS is represented by more than 6,000 lawyers in over 40 offices worldwide. More information: www.cms.law
Leadership
Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk is the Co-Founder and CEO of Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The FORBES 30U30 visionary studied Economics, Mathematics and Software Engineering in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Oxford and received his PhD from Imperial College London. As a sought-after speaker and author, the entrepreneur shares his expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech.
Ruth Rothmaler is the Chief Product Officer of Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The legally compliant and competent AI helps legal professionals to research legal issues and review and draft legal documents. Rothmaler has 15 years of experience in product development, design, and business building, having held leadership positions at Delivery Hero, Zeitgold, and Deel. A startup veteran, she is an expert at making complex technology easy and intuitive for users. At the legal tech company formerly known as Xayn, she is responsible for product development, design, and growth. Rothmaler studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives in Berlin with her family.
Dr Clara Herdeanu is the Chief Communications Officer of Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The legally compliant and competent AI helps legal professionals research legal issues and review and draft legal documents. With more than 10 years of experience on the agency and corporate side, from engineering to tech, the passionate European shares her knowledge on communication, AI, language, politics, power, and media as an author and speaker.
Simon Joecks is the Chief Technology Officer of Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The legally compliant and competent AI helps legal professionals to research legal issues and review and draft legal documents. He worked as Lead Software Engineer for HERE Technology and for various companies as a freelancer as well as a research fellow at the DAI Laboratory of the Technical University Berlin.
Philip Roy is the Chief Sales Officer of Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. He brings more than 20 years of expertise from the corporate world and startups such as Sun Microsystems, EMC, Pivotal, Mattermost, and Element.
Professor Michael Huth (PhD) is a co-founder and senior researcher at Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign legal AI. He is also the Founding President of the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. His research focuses on cybersecurity, cryptography, and security and privacy in machine learning.
Felix Reichel is Head of AI at Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The legally compliant and competent AI helps legal professionals to research legal issues and review and draft legal documents. The accomplished AI expert joined the legal tech company formerly known as Xayn shortly after its foundation in 2017 and previously studied at TU Berlin, Siemens Technik Akademie, and Beuth Hochschule Berlin.
