JoyIn CEO Questions OpenAI Model Similarities And Says Startup May Sue

According to CNBC, the CEO of Ant-backed humanoid robotics startup JoyIn has accused OpenAI of copying elements of its recent AI models and said the company has begun the process of filing a lawsuit. Guo Renjie said JoyIn had publicly presented its "extraterrestrial visitor" AI model framework in Silicon Valley weeks before OpenAI's Chief Scientist published "An Alien Mind" on Sept. 6, and he pointed to similarities in approaches such as recursive self-improvement and using AI to optimize computing power. He also cited similarities between OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra web page and JoyIn's Aether model website, which he said was released two months ago. JoyIn's Aether model claims a perceptive, rather than text-based, approach to robotic control that allows humanoids to complete tasks with a 90% success rate on the first attempt. Zhu Mingxuan, who led the model's development, said she left Figure last year and told CNBC earlier this week that Aether cut training time by two-thirds and that parts of the model would be open-sourced, including touch-related components.