Sam Altman slams Iyo lawsuit after OpenAI pulls blog post on Ive deal
Openai’s founding partner and CEO Sam Altman speaks at the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco on June 2, 2025.
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On Tuesday, Openai CEO Sam Altman criticized a case filed by the hardware attempt, accusing his company with a trademark violation.
Altman in questionIn response to the case, he was “very insistent in his efforts to buy or invest his company Jason Rugolo, his CEO CEO. Inside A writing In X, Altman wrote that Rugolo filed a lawsuit against Openai on his name in a case he described as “stupid, frustration and wrong”.
At the beginning of this month, at the beginning of this month, An announcement When you said Openai brought in May, in May Apple The designer Jony Ive with an artificial intelligence attempt with an agreement with an agreement worth approximately $ 6.4 billion. He claimed that Openai, Altman and Ive were dealing with unfair competition and trademark violation and that he was on the verge of losing his identity due to an agreement.
Openai, last week, a judge’s Openai and its partners “the plaintiff’s use of the Io Mark and” io. “
Openai, “This page is temporarily closed due to a court order after a trademark complaint about our use of ‘io’.” We do not accept complaints and examine our options. “
In X, Altman has published a process that includes the screenshots of the E -mails looking for investment from Rugolo and the intellectual property of IRY. Rugolo also asked Openai to take ıyı, Altman wrote.
Rugolo did not respond immediately to the request for comment. However on x“There are 675 other two -letter names that are not ours.”
The Case of Io is among the various legal difficulties faced by Openai, who works to improve the organizational structure to get more capital while developing AI models. Openai also opposes the New York Times in a copyright violation case and is going separately against Elon Musk, who has filed a lawsuit to violate the contract in 2015, which helps Openai to start as a non -profit organization.
The ıya accepts pre -orders for the wearable device in -ear, which contains 16 microphones. I did not publish details about IO’s product plans, but Altman said The Wall Street magazine of IO’s opening device is not a smartphone.
Altman wrote Another Tuesday Post The “best building wonderful products” to the II team, and “the world certainly needs more and less cases”.
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