Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store drama
Elon Musk threat To continue Apple for favoring Chatgpt via Grok in the App Store – and now he has done so.
On Monday, the company AI of Musk Xai officially has filed a legal action Against Apple as well as the creator of Chatgpt Openai on the commercial partnership of the two companies.
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“This is a story of two monopolists in uniting their forces to guarantee that their domination continues in a world quickly motivated by the most powerful technology that humanity has ever created: artificial intelligence”, reads the opening of the XAI trial.
“Working in tandem, the defendants Apple and Openai locked the markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and Xai from competing,” continues the costume.
Xai’s problem with Apple and Openai
Xai’s costume says that Apple stimulates Chatgpt in the Apple App Store to the detriment of the AI competing applications, such as the XAI Grok.
“Apple has taken other measures to protect its monopoly in smartphones and to prefer OPENAI by depreciating the applications of competing chatbots and supervisory applications in its classification of app stores, and it has led to its processes to revise the applications of the App Store for these competitors,” said the trial.
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However, the alleged abuse of the graphics of the App Store are however only part of the prosecution. XAI’s trial also affirms that Apple and Openai participate more widely in monopolistic activities.
According to XAI, Apple’s partnership with OPENAI, which includes the integration of chatgpt into Mac and iOS devices to fuel certain Apple Intelligence features, has boxed the Musk company out of the AI race.
“Following the exclusive arrangement of Apple and Openai, Chatgpt is the only Chatbot generator of AI which benefits from billions of user prompts from hundreds of millions of iphones,” said the XAI trial. “This makes it difficult for competitors of the Chatgpt AI chatbot and super applications powered by generative AI chatbots to evolve and innovate.”
Musk and company will battle Apple and Openai?
Before the trial, Musk claimed On his social media platform X that it was “impossible for an AI company in addition to OpenAi to reach the n ° 1 in the App Store”.
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However, users on the Musk platform contested This using the UN community note function. The community note integrated into Musk publications provides proof that the OPENAI competitors as Deepseek and Perplexity have all reached No. 1 in the App Store, even after the training of the Apple and Openai partnership.
Despite this, a recent antitrust decision can work in favor of Musk. Last year, Google lost an antitrust case concerning its paid partnership with Apple, which provided Google with the default search engine on Apple mobile devices. Although there are differences between Apple’s relationship with the two companies, this case could become relevant here.
So, Musk and Xai have a case here, or is it simply unhappy that its beloved grok application has not taken off like its AI competitors? We will soon know when this takes place in court.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April, filed a complaint against Openai, alleging that it has violated Ziff Davis Copyrights in the training and exploitation of its AI systems.
