Thomson Reuters built its own AI model off Chinese tech to rely less on Claude

Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker. John Lamparski/Getty Images for Advertising Week New York Thomson Reuters built Thomson-1 with a "realigned" version of Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model. Thomson-1 will save on costs, although it's not meant to replace Anthropic's Claude entirely. Companies are increasingly turning to open-source Chinese models as high AI prices bite. The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese…