The spy story of Apple and OpenAI
Last Friday, extraordinary news broke: Apple announced that it had filed a 41-page lawsuit in a San Jose (California) District Court against OpenAI for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract, and requested a jury trial. The reason for the lawsuit is that Sam Altman’s company hired 400 Apple employees whom it allegedly asked to take confidential information and prototype materials, which, if proven in court, would constitute an industrial property theft of enormous magnitude. The question everyone asked from the very beginning is: what could one of the leading AI companies have stolen from one that has proven to be behind precisely in this area? The answer would be that OpenAI took from Apple Park what it did not have: talent to build devices of the highest quality.