Google will go on trial in a federal court in Boston on Tuesday over allegations that the processors used to power some of its artificial intelligence technologies infringe on a computer scientist’s patents.
Singular Computing, based in Massachusetts, claims that Google copied its founder Joseph Bates’ technology in order to support AI features in Google Search, Gmail, Google Translate, and other products, according to Reuters.
According to a court filing, Singular seeks up to $7 billion in monetary damages. If approved, this could more than double the largest patent infringement award in US history.
Singular filed the complaint in 2019, alleging that Bates shared his innovations with Google between 2010 and 2014. The company claims that Google’s Tensor Processing Units copy his technology and infringe on two patents. According to the lawsuit, Google’s circuits used an improved architecture that Bates created, allowing for more processing power.
In December, the search engine giant informed the court that its processor differed from Singular’s patented technologies and that the case was invalid. Google introduced the processing units in question in 2016 to power AI for speech recognition, content creation, ad recommendations, and other functions. Singular claims that versions two and three of the units, introduced between 2017 and 2018, violate its patent rights.
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