"Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is escalating its fight with OpenAI. Musk's company filed a new lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the ChatGPT creator of poaching staff and stealing confidential technology. The complaint, filed Wednesday, claims OpenAI has engaged in a "deeply troubling pattern" of recruiting former xAI employees to gain access to trade secrets related to Grok, xAI's flagship chatbot."
"A spokesperson for OpenAI denied the allegations. "OpenAI is not merely soliciting or hiring a competitor's employees," Musk lawyers wrote in the complaint. "OpenAI is waging a coordinated, unfair, and unlawful campaign: OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of xAI's key technologies and business plans." The lawsuit also alleges that OpenAI has encouraged these recruits to violate confidentiality agreements with xAI."
"The lawsuit names ex-xAI engineer Xuechen Li, who is facing a separate case filed in August by xAI over alleged trade secret theft. On September 3, xAI won a court order to temporarily block Li from working on or communicating about AI technology with OpenAI. A source with knowledge of the issue also told Business Insider that Li, the engineer in question, never worked at OpenAI."
xAI filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California accusing OpenAI of poaching staff to access trade secrets tied to Grok, xAI’s flagship chatbot. The complaint alleges a coordinated campaign that targeted employees with knowledge of xAI’s technologies and business plans and encouraged violations of confidentiality agreements. OpenAI denied the allegations and characterized the suit as harassment, denying interest in other labs' trade secrets. The filing names ex-xAI engineer Xuechen Li and references a temporary court order blocking Li from working on or communicating about AI technology with OpenAI.
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