Databricks Beats Authors’ Copyright Claims Over One AI Model

Software firm Databricks Inc. succeeded in fending off new claims from a group of authors alleging its latest AI model infringed their copyrighted books when a federal court Tuesday ruled the authors’ allegations were too vague.

Judge Charles R. Breyer dismissed the lawsuit’s direct copyright infringement claims against Databricks over its model DBRX, but the proposed class of authors still have their original pending infringement claims over another AI model called MPT, created by Databricks unit MosaicML.

The new allegations that Databricks illegally downloaded copyrighted books to train DBRX, released last year, lacked any specificity and are “far too generalized ...