OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"
“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
The short version
- OpenAI has accused Apple of waging a “careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit” in a blog post rebutting the iPhone maker’s claims that the AI start-up stole top-secret information.
- The dispute comes as the two companies encroach on each other’s territory, with OpenAI venturing into consumer products and Apple joining forces with Google to revamp its Siri voice assistant.
- OpenAI and Apple had previously partnered to integrate AI technology into Apple’s products.
What happened
But the relationship began to sour after OpenAI last year acquired io, the design studio founded by former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive, and hired a string of Apple employees. Apple alleged in its lawsuit that more than 400 of its former employees now worked at OpenAI.
Why it matters
It said it had received no response from OpenAI in February after contacting the start-up to warn it of an internal investigation into the potential theft of Apple’s trade secrets.
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