From eWeek: Elon Musk’s xAI has taken OpenAI to court, alleging a sweeping campaign to plunder its code and business secrets through targeted employee poaching.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, claims OpenAI ran a “coordinated, unlawful campaign” to misappropriate xAI’s source code and confidential data center strategies, giving it an unfair edge as Grok outperformed ChatGPT.
The xAI’s complaint references three former employees at the center of the alleged scheme, though does not explicitly name them as defendants in this case: engineer Xuechen Li, London-based engineer Jimmy Fraiture, and a senior finance executive who is not identified by name.
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