TuSimple co-founder Xiaodi Hou has started a second autonomous trucking startup. But he is suing his former company, urging that TuSimple be liquidated and $450 million returned to shareholders, of whom he is the largest.
Suits on 3 coasts
In separate filings in courts in San Diego and Delaware, Hou claims his co-founder, Mo Chen, and CEO Cheng Lu are trying to move TuSimple’s $450 million to China. TuSimple moved its business there and has shifted its business from autonomous trucking to AI-generated video game production.
“This pivot – from TuSimple’s autonomous driving mission to Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) development in China – represents a fundamental change in business direction,” Hou…