Leave it to Google to spoil the potential omnibus copyright lawsuit author John Carreyrou, who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement, against nearly the entire AI industry in the United States: OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Perplexity AI, xAI, and Google.
Google brings up the pesky Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20. Google contends the requirements for permissive joinder have not been satisfied. Different companies, different AI training, different people, different models. But no common transaction among all defendants.
Perplexity AI had already asked to set a briefing schedule for motions to sever and motions to dismiss.
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