Scale AI suits a former and competing with MERCOR, claiming that they have tried to steal its largest customers

Scale AI, which helps technology companies prepare data to train her artificial intelligence models, has a lawsuit against a former sales staff and its competing MERCOR on Wednesday. The lawsuit claims that the employee, who was appointed by MERCOR, “stole more than 100 secret documents related to the strategies of Scale and other special information,” according to a version seen by Techcrunch.

The Mercor scale is sued due to the embezzlement of commercial secrets and the former employee, Eugene Ling, to violate the contract. The lawsuit also claims that the employee was trying to put Mercor to one of the largest Scale customers before he officially left his previous job. The lawsuit calls for the “client a”

The founder of Mercor Surya Midha denies that his company has used any domain data, although he admits that Ling may have been in the possession of some.

“Although Mercor has rented many people who left the domain, we are not interested in any trade secrets in Scale, and in fact they run our business in a different way. Eugene informed us that he had old documents in the Google Personal Engine, we have not been verified now,”

“We continued to strive six days before an offer to destroy files or access a different solution, and we are now waiting for their response,” said Midaha.

The domain claims that these documents contain the specific data that would allow MERCOR to customer service A, as well as many of the most important Scale customers.

Scale wanted to give it MERCOR a full list of files in the drive, and to prevent Ling from working with the customer A. He claims the lawsuit that MERCOR rejected. Ling immediately did not respond to the Techcrunch request for comment.

There is little evidence in the lawsuit about the identity of the customer a. The lawsuit says that if the competitor of Saim won this customer away, it will be a contract “worth millions of dollars to Mercor.”

Whatever the details of this lawsuit, it shows one thing: the range is clearly enough to threaten Mercor to follow the legal procedures. like TECHRUNCH previously reportedEven with Meta investments worth billions of dollars in Scale, TBD LABS- The basic unit in Meta is still in charge of building SuperINTelligence- Use Mercor and other LLM data training services service providers.

MERCOR is rising in the LLM training field because it is known for employing specialists in content, often, to train LLM data in their experiences.

In June, Scale announced that Meta was investing $ 14.3 billion for a 49 % stake in Scale and was employing its founder. Shortly after that, Many of the largest data customers are said to be artificial intelligence, who are competitors of Meta efforts.