# Gabriel Pereyra

> Gabriel "Gabe" Pereyra is the president and co-founder of Harvey, the legal AI company he started with lawyer and roommate Winston Weinberg in 2022. A former DeepMind researcher and Meta machine learning engineer, he helped take Harvey from a general assistant for lawyers to a platform for legal teams, and now writes about agents, model training and large-scale legal work.

- **Role:** President and co-founder at Harvey
- **Organizations:** Harvey, DeepMind, Meta
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Doctoral studies in Neuroscience (degree completion unverified), University of Oxford
- **Known for:** Co-founded Harvey in 2022 with Winston Weinberg., Helped secure an early large law firm rollout at Allen & Overy., Co-authored research on legal AI agents and large-scale M&A diligence.

## Career timeline

- **2012-2016** — Studied computer science at the University of Southern California.
- **2017-2018** — Pursued doctoral study in neuroscience at the University of Oxford, funded by DeepMind.
- **Before 2022** — Worked as a research scientist at DeepMind and a machine learning engineer at Meta.
- **2022** — Co-founded Harvey with Winston Weinberg.
- **2023** — Harvey’s early pilot with Allen & Overy led to a broad rollout to its lawyers.
- **2026-09** — Co-authored Harvey research on agents for M&A diligence; Harvey announced a $550 million round at a $15.5 billion valuation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Harvey in 2022 with Winston Weinberg.
- Helped secure an early large law firm rollout at Allen & Overy.
- Co-authored research on legal AI agents and large-scale M&A diligence.
- Harvey reported in September 2026 that 80% of Am Law 100 firms use its products.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Co-authored research on post-training agents for end-to-end M&A diligence.
- **2026-09** — Harvey announced a $550 million funding round at a $15.5 billion valuation.
- **2026-08** — Published a research preview of Harvey Tenet, the company’s in-house legal model.

## Links

- Website: https://gabepereyra.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabepereyra
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/gabepereyra

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Last updated: 2026-09-29