“OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of xAI’s key technologies and business plans, including xAI’s source code and its operational advantages in launching data centers, then inducing those employees to breach their confidentiality and other obligations to xAI through unlawful means,” the company claimed in its lawsuit.

AI has filed a fresh lawsuit against OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the company of systematically poaching its employees and stealing

xAI has been beset by chaos and controversy. The company laid off 500 workers, including high-level employees and those in charge of data annotation, earlier this month. The department in charge of training Grok is now led by a college student who graduated from high school in 2023.