Google was accused of plagiarizing the code of open source mobile agents

Developers of an open-source project for mobile agents claimed that Google improperly used their intellectual property. According to the authors, the corporation copied their software code, removing the engineers' names from the commit history and not providing proper attribution. The conflict arose after an independent team of developers presented a solution that showed better results in benchmarks than Google's similar developments. According to the statement, the corporation integrated fragments of their algorithms into its internal systems, ignoring the requirements of the license, which obliges to preserve the attribution of authors when distributing or modifying the code. The community is discussing the details of the incident, in particular, it is pointed out that there are no links to the original repository in Google's documentation. The affected side claims that their development was a key component for achieving high performance of mobile agents, which makes the corporation's actions a direct violation of the principles of the open-source community. The situation has caused a wide resonance among developers who use open libraries to train AI agents. The incident raises questions about the transparency of the integration processes of external developments into proprietary products of large technology companies and highlights the risks faced by authors of open-source software when interacting with corporate giants.