Openai Has 'no Interest' in Others' Trade Secrets, Chair Says

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1218 ET - OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor denies that the company seeks out proprietary information from competitors, following a lawsuit by Apple claiming OpenAI employees stole its trade secrets. "We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets, period, full stop," Taylor says in a CNBC interview, adding that an investigation is underway and that he can't comment further. He does, however, tout OpenAI's move toward custom AI hardware. "Our focus on hardware is really simple: we just really want to achieve our mission, which is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits humanity," Taylor says. "I think it's really important to explore the form factor of that intelligence." (elias.schisgall@wsj.com)

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