OpenAI asks US judge to dismiss Apple's trade secrets case

Aug 5 (Reuters) - ‌OpenAI asked ​a ​U.S. judge on Wednesday to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing it and ‌two former Apple employees of misappropriating ⁠the iPhone maker's trade secrets to benefit ‌the ChatGPT maker's ‌foray into consumer hardware.

"OpenAI has no use, need or desire for Apple's ​trade secrets. OpenAI is building something entirely new and different from ⁠anything at Apple," lawyers for OpenAI wrote in ​the motion to dismiss filed on Wednesday.

"OpenAI does have an interest ​in hiring the best ‌engineers, inventors, developers and creators — many of whom have ⁠decided to leave Apple and to come to OpenAI, attracted by the innovative ⁠and exciting work the company is doing," they ​added.

Apple sued OpenAI in July, accusing it of orchestrating a broad effort to systematically ‌acquire and exploit Apple's confidential information through former employees, recruiting ‌practices and supplier relationships to ⁠accelerate its push ‌into the consumer ​hardware business.

(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Lincoln ‌Feast.)

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