Developer open-sources CaseCite, a legal AI rival to Harvey

As Harvey raised $500M for legal AI, a developer released CaseCite, an open-source, self-hosted legal research platform. Documents, search index and chat history stay on the user's servers, AI features use the user's own API keys, and there is no telemetry.

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