Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI's hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Apple recently filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI , accusing the AI company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is "not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.
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- ") On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast , Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, and I debated whether this lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAI's much-discussed plans to get into the hardware business (starting with a mobile smart speaker ) and go public .
"Even setting aside whether or not the court grants any kind of injunctive relief or any kind of restraining order over what OpenAI is doing, it just naturally can lead to that sort of situation where it's going to cause some delays in what OpenAI is working on," Sean suggested.
- Kirsten, at least, predicts the latter.
Keep reading for a preview of our conversation, edited for length and clarity.
- And so if this is the direction they're headed in, all power to people who want to have somebody like that always listening to them.
- Kirsten: Well, I bring up the device that has been speculated about for a really long time, and we'll see what it really ends up being once it's officially introduced, but it's important in the context of this lawsuit that Apple filed last Friday.
It was the biggest news of the week, certainly, and this is a trade secret lawsuit.
- I'm wondering if maybe we don't get into whether this lawsuit has merits, because we haven't gone through full discovery, but what are your initial impressions of the lawsuit aside from the fact that wow, this is going to be entertaining?
") On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast , Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, and I debated whether this lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAI's much-discussed plans to get into the hardware business (starting with a mobile smart speaker ) and go public . "Even setting aside whether or not the court grants any kind of injunctive relief or any kind of restraining order over what OpenAI is doing, it just naturally can lead to that sort of situation where it's going to cause some delays in what OpenAI is working on," Sean suggested. "Which I'm sure was probably part of the reasoning behind Apple doing this.
They don't do this stuff willy nilly. " With all those plans on the line, will OpenAI try to settle this as quickly as possible, or did it learn from its recent courtroom victory against Elon Musk that it can endure the cost and embarrassment of a trial? Kirsten, at least, predicts the latter.
Keep reading for a preview of our conversation, edited for length and clarity. Kirsten Korosec: Sean, how do you feel about Sam Altman listening to you with a little device maybe in your pocket? Maybe that's predictable, but I'm good.
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