Permanent employees with competition is a common practice in the artificial intelligence sector. But where some companies, who see that their talents leave, have only complained publicly, others go further. This is the case of Xai, Elon Musk’s new company. According to Business Insider, he filed a complaint against Openai, accusing the Chatgpt creator of having deposit employees to steal industrial secrets related to his chatbot, Grok.
“Operai is not content to request or discuss the employees of a competitor. OpenAI is carrying out a coordinated, unfair and illegal campaign: OpenAi addresses the people who know the key technologies and the commercial plans of XAI,” wrote the lawyers of Elon Musk in the complaint presented on September 25.
They also criticize the new company in competition for having encouraged these recruits for violating their privacy agreement with the Creator of Grok.
However, legal action
The complaint explicitly mentions a former XAI engineer, Xuenchen Li, accused of having stolen commercial secrets. After having submitted legal actions against him in August, Elon Musk’s new company obtained an order of the Court that temporarily prohibited him from working or communicating in AI technology with Openai. However, according to Business Insider, Xuenchen Li has never worked at Sam Altman’s company.
Xai also alleges that Optai Debouchory is one of his first engineers, Jimmy Fraye, and a senior manager in charge of finance to obtain confidential information.
This is not the first time that Elon Musk has complained against Operai. Co -funder of the company with Sam Altman, has become his rival over the years and does everything to put sticks on the wheels. In 2024, he had brought a first legal action against Operai, accusing him of breaking his non -profit social mission trying to change the status. He had finally withdrawn this complaint before relaunching a legal front a few months later.
While Optai has stopped becoming lucrative, Elon Musk has not abandoned the prosecution, with the trial that is scheduled for 2026. Faced with these multiple attacks, Sam Altman’s new company ended up complaining against the billionaire, accusing him of wanting to reduce speed and “take control over innovation in the AI sector for his own gain.” There is no doubt that this new legal action will not get worse.
Source: BFM TV
