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United States District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco on Tuesday released a momentary limiting order at the demand of xAI that restricts Xuechen Li from having any function or duty at OpenAI referring to generative AI.
Elon Musk’s expert system start-up xAI has actually won a court order momentarily obstructing a previous xAI engineer from dealing with and even interacting about AI innovation with his brand-new company, ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
United States District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco on Tuesday provided a short-term limiting order at the demand of xAI that restricts Xuechen Li from having any function or duty at OpenAI relating to generative AI.
Musk’s xAI last month implicated Li in a claim of taking trade tricks associated with “cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT” to his brand-new task at OpenAI.
OpenAI and a legal representative for Li did not instantly react to ask for remark, and neither did xAI. OpenAI is not an offender.
The suit highlights a race in Silicon Valley amongst significant innovation business to acquire AI market share and employ skill for expert system systems.
In a different case, Musk’s xAI business last month took legal action against Apple in federal court, implicating it of unlawfully conspiring with OpenAI to reduce competing platforms. Musk is likewise taking legal action against OpenAI over its conversion to a for-profit business. OpenAI countersued Musk in April for harassment.
The suit versus Li stated he began work at xAI in 2015 and assisted to train and establish its chatbot Grok. Li took its trade tricks in July, after accepting a task from OpenAI and offering $7 million in xAI stock, according to the claim.
Li was disallowed in Lin’s order from having any interaction in the meantime about generative AI “with any officer, director, employee, agent, supplier, consultant, or customer of OpenAI.”
Lin stated the order will last up until “xAI has confirmed that all of xAI’s confidential information in Li’s possession, custody, or control has been deleted.”
The judge set a hearing for October 7 to think about whether a longer order needs to be enforced.
The case is xAI Corp v. Xuechen Li, United States District Court, Northern District of California, No. 3:25-cv-07292-RFL.
