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xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI

By Blake Brittain

Sep 2 2025 6:10AM

Related to its Grok chatbot.

xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has sued a former engineer at the company for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to its Grok chatbot and taking them to rival OpenAI. Musk's company alleged in the complaint that Xuechen Li stole confidential information related to "cutting-ed...

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