Marketing materials and video related to a blockbuster partnership between former Apple Inc designer Jony Ive and OpenAI Inc were removed from the web due to a trademark dispute.
Social media users noticed Sunday that a video and website hosted by OpenAI that announced the artificial intelligence company’s US$6.5bil (RM28bil) acquisition of Ive’s secretive AI hardware startup IO Products were no longer online, prompting speculation about a hiccup in the agreement.
Public-facing materials were pulled due to a trademark dispute, according to spokespeople for Ive and OpenAI. Bloomberg reported last week that a judge was considering barring OpenAI from using the IO name due to a lawsuit recently filed by the similarly named IYO Inc, which is also building AI devices.
"This is an utterly baseless complaint and we’ll fight it vigorously,” a spokesperson for Ive said on Sunday. – Bloomberg
