Swiss Startup Accuses Perplexity AI of Stealing Passive Listening Tech
DaVoice says Perplexity used confidential talks to misappropriate source code and other trade secrets for a wake-word system, seeking damages for willful misuse.
7 Articles
7 Articles
Perplexity AI: Perplexity AI sued by startup for allegedly stealing 'wake word' technology
The heavily redacted complaint, filed on Thursday, said that Perplexity stole DaVoice's secrets after the companies collaborated on unspecified technology "built with DaVoice's proprietary source code, inference logic, network architecture, training approaches, training data, and know-how."
DaVoice's startup sued Perplexity AI in a federal court in California, United States, for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to the activation word technology for AI assistants. The complaint, presented on Thursday (24), states that Perplexity stole DaVoice's secrets after companies collaborated in an unspecified technology, built with DaVoice's proprietary source code, logic of inference, network architecture, training approaches, trainin…
Swiss startup accuses Perplexity AI of stealing passive listening tech
Perplexity called the lawsuit a "baseless" reach for ownership of standard wake-word technology, which is used to recognize spoken activation phrases in devices like Amazon's Echo.
Perplexity AI sued by startup for allegedly stealing 'wake word ...
The report, widely censored and presented on Thursday, states that Perplexity stole secrets from DaVoice after companies collaborated on an unspecified technology
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 60% of the sources lean Right
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium












