Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
Minitap alleges Google's Artemis mobile-agent project reused its open-source mobile-use code and stripped author attribution, despite Apache 2.0 requirements.
Minitap says Google's Artemis project for automating mobile devices contains code identical to its open-source mobile-use agent, including the Hopper agent's verbatim instructions and a WhatsApp messaging example, and that a package file listing authors Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, and Nicolas Dehandschoewercker was replaced via an August force push removing their names. The company argues this conflicts with Apache 2.0's requirement to preserve copyright and attribution notices. Minitap also claims the AndroidWorld leaderboard ignored its later 94.8% and 100% submissions while showing Artemis at 99.1% and mobile-use at 91.4%. It has published a public factual record with archived file comparisons.
- Artemis Android device-connection code and Hopper agent prompts match mobile-use exactly
- Author names removed via August force push; GitHub marks version detached
- Apache 2.0 section 4 requires preserving attribution and identifying changes
- AndroidWorld leaderboard still lists mobile-use at 91.4% despite 100% submission claims
- Minitap published archived comparisons and a timeline as a factual record
- Products
- Artemismobile-useAndroidWorld
From the original article
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I was in the office with the team when we heard that Google had released Artemis, a project for automating mobile devices. We opened the repository and started looking through it. My reaction was pretty immediate: We built mobile-use as an open-source research experiment to see whether we could get AI agents to reliably interact with phones.
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