Musk companies sue Apple, OpenAI alleging anticompetitive scheme

Two of Elon Musk's companies sued Apple and OpenAI connected Monday, accusing the brace of an "anticompetitive scheme" to thwart artificial quality rivals.

The lawsuit, filed by Musk's AI startup xAI and his societal media level X, alleges Apple and OpenAI person "colluded" to support monopolies successful the smartphone and generative AI markets.

It besides accuses Apple of deprioritizing alleged "super apps" and generative AI chatbot competitors, specified arsenic xAI's Grok, successful its App Store rankings, portion favoring OpenAI by integrating its ChatGPT chatbot into Apple products.

"Unless the tribunal enjoins Apple and OpenAI's unlawful conduct, defendants volition proceed to thwart competition, and their competitors, similar plaintiffs, volition proceed to endure the anticompetitive consequences," according to the complaint, which was filed successful U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Musk earlier this period threatened to writer Apple for "an unequivocal antitrust violation," saying successful a station connected X that the institution "is behaving successful a mode that makes it intolerable for immoderate AI institution too OpenAI to scope #1 successful the App Store."

Representatives from OpenAI and Apple didn't instantly respond to requests for comment.

Altman responded to Musk's post connected X: "This is simply a singular assertion fixed what I person heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to payment himself and his ain companies and harm his competitors and radical helium doesn't like."

An Apple spokesperson antecedently said its App Store was designed to beryllium "fair and escaped of bias," and that the institution features "thousands of apps" utilizing a assortment of signals.

Apple past twelvemonth partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone, iPad, Mac laptop and desktop products.

Several users replied to Musk's station connected X via its Community Notes diagnostic saying that rival chatbot apps specified arsenic DeepSeek and Perplexity were ranked No. 1 connected the App Store aft Apple and OpenAI announced their partnership.

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