Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has launched legal action against a former employee accused of stealing sensitive information about its Grok chatbot and passing it to rival OpenAI.
Details of the lawsuit
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in a California federal court, claims that engineerXuechen Li misappropriated confidential data on “cutting-edge AI technologies with features surpassing ChatGPT” before joining OpenAI earlier this month.
Li’s role at xAI
According to the complaint, Li joined xAI last year and played a key role in…

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