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Tesla: There are spies who want to steal my trade secrets!
This time it's Tesla's latest secret weapon: the supercomputer Dojo.
Just recently, Tesla filed a lawsuit against a recently departed engineer, claiming that the engineer used his position to steal the core secrets of its supercomputer Dojo.
And after being discovered, they also took out "fake computers" in an attempt to cover up the crime.
However, as for what secrets the engineer stole, and what they used after stealing, Tesla said:
I don't know, he just stole it anyway.
Still the same as Tesla's handling of other espionage cases, there is no direct evidence, I will sue you first.
Interestingly, this time it was an engineer with a "Russian name".
Former engineer steals supercomputing secrets?
The former employee accused of stealing secrets by Tesla is a thermal management engineer at the Dojo supercomputer named Alexander Yatskov.
It is reported that the Atskov joined Tesla in January this year.
The main job responsibility is to simulate different thermal management designs to promote the performance of Dojo supercomputers in terms of speed, power, safety, and cost.
According to Tesla, Ateskov had access to Tesla's core secrets — Dojo's cooldown information and other information related to neural networks training supercomputers.
It was also discovered that Atskov's work computer contained e-mails exchanged with his personal device, and the contents of the e-mails were related to Dojo's core secrets.
This practice violates Tesla's relevant confidentiality agreements.
Tesla later questioned Atskov internally, admitting that confidential information was stored on its own device.
Tesla also said that the company asked Atskov to hand over personal equipment involving confidentiality so that he could recover the stolen confidential data, but Atskov played a trick tanuki for a prince:
What was given to the company was not the personal computer he used often, but an old 2020 computer, and the core secrets that Tesla stole could not be found on this "fake" computer.
That is to say, Tesla's lawsuit against Atskov, in addition to the latter's admission that confidential information was indeed stored on personal devices, is not known about the key evidence of what core secrets were stolen and what purpose.
Anyway, I know you have this suspicion, but I have no evidence, so I will send you to court first.
The whole spy incident is probably like this, not complicated.
But the last time Tesla had such a strange thing, it was just as strange - in line with the atmosphere in the United States.
Alexander Yatskov is a typical ethnic Russian name. And according to Tesla's lawsuit, Atskov's residential address is located in Manteca, California.
Public information shows that there is really a cooling system expert who can be in the same name and the same region, and previously served as an engineering professor at Moscow State Technical University. It's just that this Atskov's work resume did not update Tesla's relevant resume.
This Alexander-Atskov, whose recent work experience shows that he is the chief thermal management engineer at Juniper Networks. This Juniper Networks, on the other hand, is a large communications network equipment company and is not directly related to supercomputers.
The only experience associated with supercomputing was 15 years ago as a thermal management engineer at supercomputer manufacturer Cray. And according to foreign media Ars Technica, after contacting the Alexander-Atskov about the espionage incident, the answer was: no comment.
Therefore, from the perspective of all kinds of clues, it is basically certain that Tesla is now suing the former engineering professor of Moscow State Technical University.
Currently suing former Russian employees in the United States, tut... DDDD。
Tesla Infernal Affairs, this is not the first time
Tesla's prosecution of commercial espionage is actually not the first time, and there is even a sense of "thieves in the world".
Prior to this, including the star self-driving company Aurora, Zoox, and Rivian, known as Tesla's killer, etc., they had all gone to court with Tesla for stealing core technologies from departing employees.
In addition, the most representative incident is the case of Tesla suing former employee Cao Guangzhi.
The incident occurred in March 2019.
At that time, Tesla sued former employee Cao Guangzhi in court, along with Cao Guangzhi's next Xiaopeng car. The grounds for appeal were that Xiaopeng Motors and former employees who had jumped from Tesla to steal trade secrets from its autopilot system, AutoPilot.
The Cao Guangzhi, who was once a core member of Tesla's AutoPilot team, had access to the algorithm's source code, and Tesla accused Cao Guangzhi of uploading "a complete copy of Tesla's Autopilot-related source code" to his iCloud account starting in 2018.
At the same time, after Cao Guangzhi got Xiaopeng's offer, he also deleted 120,000 files on his work computer, and cleared the browser history before leaving.
In addition, Tesla also accused Cao Guangzhi of poaching another member of the Autopilot team to Xiaopeng Motors a month after leaving.
Combing through the logic of Tesla's appeal is that after Cao Guangzhi left Tesla, he will share autopilot's core secrets with Xiaopeng Motors.
In the end, after two years of tug-of-war, the espionage case ended in a settlement, and according to the results of a 2-year investigation:
Cao Guangzhi admitted to backing up Tesla's AutoPilot code in his personal cloud, but did not provide the code to a third party, and after getting the Xiaopeng offer, Cao Guangzhi deleted the backup code.
At the same time, Tesla has not produced any evidence to prove that Cao Guangzhi's backup behavior has any relationship with Xiaopeng Motors.
Although it was the final settlement, not everyone was happy, Cao Guangzhi could not work properly in Xiaopeng because of the 2-year litigation period, and finally the two parties were forced to terminate the contract.
Although Xiaopeng Automobile was also innocent, during the few years of litigation, it has not been able to get rid of the stigma of "stealing technology", and even once was nicknamed "Thief Car", there are words of suffering.
And to add time, in 2019, the PRESIDENT of the United States is Trump, who is making a big fuss in the relations between the two sides of the Pacific, and the Chinese talents are also targeted at that time...
Today's Alexander, yesterday's Cao Guangzhi.
Judging from the phenomena and results, Tesla really knows. But has Tesla's technology really been coveted? I don't know, because Tesla's many commercial espionage lawsuits come to an end, usually there are 2 common points:
The first is that there is no direct evidence, and the final settlement is often pulled for a long time.
Including autopilot players Aurora, Zoox, and Rivian and Xiaopeng Motors, who are also OEMs, the final result is that Tesla can't produce evidence hammers, and finally either settle or dismiss the appeal.
So much so that Aurora founder and well-known self-driving entrepreneur Ermson said that suing for a lawsuit, dragging the other party into a protracted lawsuit, and then using public opinion influence in the process to create momentum... It was Tesla's usual means.
How to say it? Ren Zhengfei's "American Trap", which Ren Zhengfei is reading, is about such a commercial competition method.
Secondly, Tesla's espionage cases often appear in its new business and new fields.
For example, the lawsuit with Xiaopeng, Aurora, etc. is because of automatic driving; the appeal against Atskov is because of the supercomputer Dojo.
No matter which field Tesla is, at that time, Tesla is a "new entrant", and it is not yet a leader in the industry... But the lawsuit is high, the topic is high, and the brand that spreads Tesla in this field is loud.
Some shrimps and pigs said that suing former employees is actually to recruit new employees.
How to say it? I can't understand it, and the logic is also a bit roundabout, but if you taste it in detail, the more you taste it, the more you feel that it makes a little sense. After all, don't commercial spies steal teachers and deliver technical secrets from the "leaders" to the "backwards"?
One more thing
However, when it comes to stealing and transporting... The hottest topic in Tesla today is "Ma Yilong" itself.
Yes, someone "stole" Musk's technology, but I didn't expect anyone to imitate Musk's face?
Just today, the Chinese version of Musk appeared on Weibo hot search first, because Musk shouted after seeing a Chinese who resembled Musk on Twitter:
I'd like to meet this guy (if he's really), and recently with deepfake technology it's really hard to tell if it's really hard to tell if it's really fake.
After the Chinese version of Musk saw the tweet, he quickly shouted affectionately on Weibo:
I'm right here, I'd love to see you too, and I love you. You are my hero.
A comparison look down, although I don't know if other families technically imitate Musk's image, this face is really copied from the source code to have an effect.
Before Musk saw this face for the first time, he also laughed and said:
I may have some Chinese ancestry.
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