Tesla sues former engineer for allegedly stealing confidential information about his supercomputer

Tesla is preparing to sue a former engineer for illegally copying “confidential and tightly guarded” information about the company’s Project Dojo supercomputer technology to his personal devices. output.

‘Refuses to provide documents’

Tesla hired former employee Alexander Yatskov in January to help design the supercomputer’s cooling systems. According to information obtained by Bloomberg, the company is suing Yatskov for copying cooling information and other confidential information about Project Dojo, which processes large amounts of data used to train AI software for fully autonomous vehicles, and for refusing to return the information.

The information obtained allegedly claimed that the company admitted to hiding confidential information on its former employee’s personal devices during its conversations with Yatskov. Yatskov, who was put on administrative leave from 6 April 2022, resigned from his post on 2 May.

Tesla is filing a precedent claim for damages against Alexander Yatskov, who he also says has provided false information about his past work experience, and seeks a court order that will force the former employee to return confidential information .