OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple’s landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as “meritless.” In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup’s employees as theft, and “generic” product development information as “trade secrets,” adding that Apple made no reasonable efforts to maintain such secrecy.

The dismissal request is in response to a lawsuit filed by Apple in July, alleging that former Apple employees that went on to work for OpenAI stole confidential documents to further OpenAI’s hardware development plans. OpenAI’s official legal rebuttal follows a blog post it published on Tuesday titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” in which it described the lawsuit as “careless, aggressive, and oddly personal.”