xAI Wins Court Order Blocking Former Engineer from Sharing AI Technology with OpenAI
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has filed a lawsuit against a former engineer, accusing him of misappropriating “cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT” and using them in his new role at OpenAI. The engineer began working at xAI last year, where he helped train and develop the company’s chatbot, Grok.
The U.S. District Court in San Francisco granted xAI’s request and issued a temporary restraining order that bars the engineer from holding any role or responsibility at OpenAI related to generative AI. The order also prohibits him from communicating about generative AI with any officer, director, employee, agent, supplier, consultant, or customer of OpenAI, until “xAI has confirmed that all of xAI’s confidential information in the former engineer’s possession, custody, or control has been deleted.”
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