OpenAI Is Going to War Against an Idea Man Over Trademark, Site

It sounded like the setup to a joke, and for a while I thought it was: A company called OpenAI sues a company called Open AI. … The case, formally named OpenAI Inc. v. Open Artificial Intelligence Inc., showed up on the docket for the US District Court in Northern California, to zero fanfare, in August of last year. Companies with near-identical names entangled in a lawsuit usually means trademark infringement—more the makings of a one-liner than a riveting story. Still, it did involve the OpenAI, the generative AI kingpin and maker of ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft Corp. to ...