Sam Altman slams Iyo lawsuit after OpenAI pulls blog post on Ive deal

OPENAI CEO Sam Altman criticized a legal action filed by the material startup Iyo on Tuesday, which accused its brand offense.

Altman saidIn response to the prosecution, that Iyo CEO, Jason Rugolo, had been “quite persistent in his efforts” to open the opening of buying or investing in his business. In a post On X, Altman wrote that Rugolo now continues Openai on the name in one case that he described as “silly, disappointing and bad”.

The costume, earlier this month, came from an ad In May, when Openai said he was brought Apple Designer Jony IVE by acquiring her IO artificial intelligence startup in an agreement evaluated at around $ 6.4 billion. Iyo allegedly alleged that Openai, Altman and Ive had engaged in unjust competition and a brand counterfeiting and said he was about to lose his identity because of the agreement.

OPENAI deleted the blog post on the agreement of his website, after a judge granted Iyo’s request last week for a temporary prohibition prescription to keep OPENAI and his partners “to use Iyo Mark of the applicant, and any brand in a confused manner, including without limitation” IO “.” “”

“This page is temporarily decreasing due to a court order following a brand complaint of Iyo about our use of the name” IO “”, says OpenAi in a message that now appears on the link where the post had been. “We do not agree with the complaint and examine our options.”

On X, Altman has published Rugolo email screenshots looking for investment and a transaction involving Iyo’s intellectual property. Rugolo also wanted Openai to buy Iyo, wrote Altman.

Rugolo did not immediately respond to a request for comments. But on xHe wrote that “there are 675 other names of letters they can choose who are not ours.”

The Iyo costume is among several legal challenges to which Openai, which works at develop its organizational structure To take more capital because it builds its AI models. Openai also goes against the New York Times in a copyright counterfeit caseand separately against Elon Muskwho had helped start Openai as a non -profit organization in 2015 and is now pursuit for breach of contract.

Iyo accepts pre-orders for its Iyo One intra-ear system which contains 16 microphones. Ive has not published details on IO products plans, but Altman said The Wall Street Journal that IO’s inaugural device is not a smartphone.

Altman wrote Another Tuesday post Let him wish the Iyo team “the best building of large products” and that “the world certainly needs more things and less prosecution”.

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