Elon Musk Gets Dealt Blow By Biden-Appointed Judge Days After Becoming Trillionaire

A judge dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI accusing a rival of trying to steal trading secrets — three days after Musk became the world’s first trillionaire.

San Francisco-based federal judge Rita Lin, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, dismissed the case Monday after ruling that OpenAI failed to demonstrate that it obtained confidential information from former xAI engineer Xuechen Li. The dismissal marks the new trillionaire’s second courtroom loss against OpenAI in less than a month.

The lawsuit brought against OpenAI stated that in the desire to win the artificial intelligence race to build the best AI model, OpenAI crossed the line by stealing trading secrets from Li, who had admitted to stealing the company’s entire code base, according to the lawsuit. Its complaint revolved around a presentation that Li made to OpenAI who was at the time trying to hire him.

Musk’s xAI is the developer of the chatbot Grok while OpenAI developed and runs ChatGPT.

OpenAI and xAI each did not immediately respond to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Musk’s AI company argued that its competitor sought information about the newest model of Grok, the Washington Examiner reported