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2024: Settlement with Google over technology theft lawsuit
On January 24, 2024, Google and Singular Computing entered into a settlement agreement with which they settled a multi-year trial related to an alleged infringement of rights to proprietary technology. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the very fact of its achievement indicates that Google pleaded guilty to stealing the developments.
In 2019, Singular, founded by Massachusetts computer specialist Joseph Bates, filed a $1.67 billion lawsuit against Google, accusing the corporation of introducing Singular technology into tensor processors (TPUs) that support artificial intelligence features in Google Search, Gmail, Google Translate and other services. Bates shared his ideas and inventions with Google between 2010 and 2014, which resulted in Google-created TPUs copying Bates' technology and violating two of his patents, Reuters reported, citing the case file.
Internal e-mail, which was presented to the court, shows that Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean wrote to others that Bates' ideas "really fit well" for what Google is developing.
Google's lawyer, Robert Van Nest, countered that Google employees who designed the chips never met Bates and developed them regardless of the workers who met him.
He called Bates a "frustrated inventor" who failed to convince a host of companies, including, and Microsoft Amazon , to OpenAI use his technology. Van Nest said Bates' technology uses approximate mathematics that can generate "incorrect" calculations and Google chips are fundamentally different from what is described in Singular's patents.[1]
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