China’s artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology, which is also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against US tech giant Apple, alleging it has infringed on its patents.
Xiao-i filed the lawsuit in a Shanghai court, asking for 10 billion yuan ($1.43 billion) in damages and demanding that Apple cease “manufacturing, using, promising to sell, selling, and importing” products that infringe on the patent. The Chinese firm has argued that Apple’s voice-recognition technology Siri infringes on a patent it applied for in 2004 and was granted in 2009.
The row between the two firms has been ongoing for nearly a decade. Shanghai Zhizhen first sued Apple for patent infringement in 2012 regarding its voice recognition technology.
This is hilarious. The court's ruling is such a transparent case of "light and long no matta! US say Chah-na eez ko-pay, so Cha-nah make same ac-loo-zeshun againsta-a US!"
Anyone who has ever lived in China knows the last thing that pit of a country invented was gunpowder, and they didn't so much as "invent" that as stumble into it by accident when a Taoist monk was trying to make an immortality pill.
Sued? Don’t be naive. This will not be settled without weapons. I suggest you take Cook hostage. Do you have an AI infiltration team?
Hilarious! 🤣 Siri is so bad, if I were that company I would never even attempt to claim it as my own work, let alone take it all the way to the Supreme Court!