Overview

• The company filed its motion Thursday in federal court in San Francisco seeking dismissal of xAI’s trade‑secret case.
• OpenAI denies it poached staff to obtain Grok technology and says the accusations are false and unsubstantiated.
• xAI alleges OpenAI hired at least eight former employees to access proprietary Grok know‑how and claims Grok outperforms ChatGPT.
• In the filing, OpenAI describes the case as part of Elon Musk’s ongoing harassment and says xAI is losing talent to competitors.
• The case is one front in a broader legal clash that includes xAI’s separate suit against Apple, which Apple and OpenAI have asked the court to dismiss, and Musk’s challenge to OpenAI’s for‑profit transition.