It was a turbulent summer for AI Scale: Meta took part in the company in the company, Mark Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang and other best employees, and Scale fired 14 percent of his workforce. Now the latest development is a lawsuit for corporate espionage in the AI industry.
AI data labeling company, which provided training data to drive many leading AI models in the industry, filed a lawsuit against a former employee, Eugene Ling and his current employer, Mercor, who is one of the key Scale competitors on Wednesday.
Scale claimed that Ling, who was the head of commitment management, stole over 100 confidential documents containing reserved information and company strategies for customer management. The company also claimed that a significant number of documents related to one of the significant Scale clients and that Ling downloaded many of them the day after meeting Mercora CEO. He also claimed that Ling tried to recruit the client to join Mercora when he was still on a immense scale.
When Ling contacted the client’s employee, he said: “I stop in the data space and I am really excited [how] This new company can support you. “According to the claim, the employee asked if Ling means Mercora, to which Ling replied:” Are you already working with Mercor? ” They both allegedly planned to discuss the matter during the conversation.
A lawsuit from the scale appears during a constant shock in the AI industry. Connections and acquisitions, quasi acquisitions, stunning salary packages and departures similar to music from one company AI to another (and sometimes return). And this is naturally suitable for sensitive information-particularly thorny matter, when the intensity of the AI arms race is at the highest level, and companies such as Opeli, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Microsoft are constantly trying to raise each other with novel functions, tools, computer resources and financing.
Last Thursday, Xai Elona Muska sued one of his former engineers, Xuechen Li, in the Federal Court in California, claiming that Li “betrayed Xai’s trust and faith, according to his confidential laptop Xai … and trade secrets from the laptop published by Xai”, according to a laptop published by XAI. ” complaint. It is claimed that at the end of July Li sold about $ 7 million in the company’s shares and sent “trade secrets” to his personal device before he gave up the role in OpenAi.
As part of the lawsuit, Scale refers that the American District Court for the northern California district grant the company both legal costs and compensation, as well as the Mercor bar using its reserved information and requires reimbursement of Scale documents.
“The scale has become an industry leader in terms of the strength of our ideas, innovation and execution,” said Joe Osborne, spokesman for AI The Verge in a statement. “We will not allow anyone to take unlawful shortcuts at the expense of our activity.”