Thomson Reuters developed its own AI model by fine-tuning Alibaba's open-source Qwen. Jonathan Richard Schwarz, the company's Head of AI Research, described the effort in posts linking to a technical report. The report outlines how organizations can replicate the approach with lower spending. Observers including Ari Morcos and others noted the move decreases reliance on frontier labs such as Anthropic. Schwarz also highlighted sections on value re-alignment and constitutional AI applied to the open-weight model. The associated papers appear on Hugging Face under tri-fair-lab.