Elon Musk’s xAI sues ex-employee for stealing Grok trade secrets to join OpenAI

Elon Musk-led xAI is suing a former employee named Xuechen Li for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to the company’s Grok AI chatbot and for allegedly taking them to OpenAI. In the lawsuit filed at the California federal court on Thursday, xAI stated that Li stole confidential information related to its new AI offering to get the new job at OpenAI.

According to the lawsuit, Li began working at xAI in February last year, and he was a member of the technical team that included around 20 engineers. Li was responsible for training and developing