Chinese robot startup JoyIn says OpenAI copied its ideas and its website
JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chief executive, Guo Renjie, set out the claims in an open letter in Chinese on the company’s WeChat account, dated 10 September. On the same day, JoyIn announced Aether, a model for controlling humanoid robots.
“People often say major tech companies have intelligence networks monitoring the whole internet, this time I believe it, this is a direct distillation of us without any modifications,” Guo wrote, in CNBC’s translation. Evelyn Cheng reported the letter for CNBC. The outlet said it could not independently verify the claims. OpenAI did not immediately respond to its request for comment. TNW has not verified the claims either.
The three questions
JoyIn is based in Suzhou and backed by Ant Group, according to CNBC. The letter puts “three questions” to OpenAI. They cover technical architecture and ideas, the concept...
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