Apple sued two of its former employees and ChatGPT owner OpenAI on July 10 for allegedly stealing its trade secrets.
The new legal complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.
The plaintiff, Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc., is suing defendants Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan, who used to be Apple employees, along with OpenAI Foundation and its controlled subsidiary, OpenAI Group PBC, and io Products LLC, a hardware startup that OpenAI acquired.
OpenAI is a U.S.-based AI company headquartered in San Francisco. OpenAI created and owns ChatGPT, a popular chatbot, along with its underlying models. Tan, who is now OpenAI’s chief hardware officer, co-founded io Products. Liu is now a member of OpenAI’s technical staff….