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Company filingMarch 30, 2026Hendrix v. Apple Inc. · N.D. Cal. 4:25-cv-07558

Apple admits it trained its OpenELM research model on RedPajama's books subset, and that RedPajama included Books3

In its answer to the authors' consolidated complaint, Apple admits it used the "Books" subset of the RedPajama dataset to train OpenELM, which it calls a non-commercial research model that is not part of Apple Intelligence, and admits that RedPajama included a dataset sometimes referred to as Books3. It admits that the datasets used to train certain Apple Foundation Models contained books or portions of books, without naming a source. It admits its crawler Applebot has crawled web pages since about 2015 and that Applebot data was used to train foundation models. It says it has licensed data from publishers and has a licensing agreement with Shutterstock. Apple says it lacks knowledge of what Books3 contains and whether the plaintiffs' works are in it, and of the complaint's allegations about shadow libraries. These are Apple's own statements in its pleading; the court has made no findings.

Apple's answer to the consolidated class action complaint (Dkt. 83) ↗

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