Billionaire investor Mark Cuban says AI will make companies stop filing for patents; ‘because the second you file your patent, every LLM is …’

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban warns that artificial intelligence is prompting companies to abandon patents for trade secrets. He argues that publicly filed patents become free training data for AI models, enabling rivals to easily develop workarounds. Cuban suggests this shift, exemplified by Elon Musk's approach, will become increasingly common in the AI age.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban says AI will make companies stop filing for patents; ‘because the second you file your patent, every LLM is …’
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban warns that artificial intelligence is prompting companies to abandon patents for trade secrets. He argues that publicly filed patents become free training data for AI models, enabling rivals to easily develop workarounds. Cuban suggests this shift, exemplified by Elon Musk's approach, will become increasingly common in the AI age.