Sam Altman, co -founder and CEO of Openaai, speaks on the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco on June 2, 2025.
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The CEO of Openaai, Sam Altman, criticized a lawsuit on Tuesday, which was submitted by Hardware Startup Iyo, which accused his company due to brand injury.
In response to the suit, Altman said that Iyo CEO Jason Rugolo was “quite persistent in his efforts” to bring Openai to his company for purchase or in investments. In a post on X, Altman wrote that Rugolo, in a case that he described as “silly, disappointing and false”, sued Openai because of the name.
The suit came from an announcement in May at the beginning of this month when Openaai said Apple Designer Jony Ive by capturing his startup IO for artificial intelligence in a deal worth around 6.4 billion US dollars. Iyo claimed that Openai, Altman and IVE had been committed to unfair competition and brand injury and claimed that it was shortly before the loss of his identity because of the deal.
Openai removed the blog post about the deal from his website after a judge had given Iyo's request for a temporary injunction last week to keep Openaai and his employees “from the use of the plaintiff and the IYO brand of the plaintiff and a confusing way, including without restriction”. “
“This page is temporarily due to a judicial order after a brand complaint from Iyo about our use of the name 'io' down,” says Openai in a message that has now been published on the link in which the post was. “We do not agree to the complaint and check our options.”
Altman Screenshots of E -Mails from Rugolo searched for X looking for investments and a transaction with Iyo's intellectual property. Rugolo also wanted Openaai Iyo, Altman wrote.
Rugolo did not immediately answer a request for comment. But he wrote on X: “There are 675 other letters that you can choose that are no longer us.”
The IYO lawsuit is part of various legal challenges that Openai is facing who work to develop its organizational structure to adopt more capital while building its AI models. Openai also competes against the New York Times in a copyright infringement and separated separately against Elon Musk, who had helped in 2015 as a non -profit organization and is now suing for breach of contract.
Iyo accepts pre-orders for his Iyo one in-ear wearable device, which contains 16 microphones. I have not published any details about the IO product plans, but Altman told Wall Street Journal that the first device from IO was not a smartphone.
Altman wrote in another Tuesday post that he wishes the IYO team “the best building great products” and that “the world certainly needs to complain more and less”.
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