Ah, there's the rub. Thanks I was having a hard time figuring this one out.
Valeo and Nvidia competed on a contract. Valeo won the hardware part, Nvidia the software part. The lawsuit is about Nvidia benefiting on this project.
Details from another place the same story, but from The Verge. lemmy.nz/post/3702572
Dangdoggo@kbin.social 7 months ago
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Direct link to the article: theverge.com/…/valeo-nvidia-autonomous-driving-so…
TL;DR NVidia and Valeo competed for an AI contract, Valeo won the hardware side but NVidia won the software (surely that’s backwards lol). The two companies had to work together on the project, it was during such a project call that Moniruzzaman was caught with old Valeo code.
So yeah, that’s much more damning, and the Fortune article did a poor job with the story by not explaining that.