Perplexity AI sued by startup for allegedly stealing ‘wake word’ technology
Startup DaVoice has sued Perplexity AI in California federal court for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to “wake word” technology for AI assistants.
* 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.”
* Spokespeople for the companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.
