San Francisco—A Chinese national who was formerly an xAI engineer has been sued by the company for alleged “willful and malicious” stealing of xAI’s trade secrets and documents, including “cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT and other competing products.”
The 29-page federal civil complaint filed Aug. 28 in the Northern District of California seeks a temporary restraining order, ordering the defendant to surrender all stolen files and documents, as well as injunctions to prevent any others from accessing those materials.
The lawsuit also seeks damages and emergency injunctive relief to prevent defendant Li Xuechen from working at OpenAI or any other competitor of xAI pertaining to generative AI, until xAI confirms all allegedly stolen files are deleted….