“Apple behaves in a way that prevents any AI from except Openai to reach the number 1 in the App Store, which is an unambiguous violation of antimonopoly,” ” Said Musk. “Why do you refuse to place X or GROK in your” must have “section when X is application No. 1 in the world, and Grok is #5 among all applications?”, CEO XAI He asked Apple in another postwhich is now pinned to his profile.
Musk did not provide any evidence of his claims and it is not clear if he made his threats and submitted a trial.
Apple statement submitted by Bloomberg And assigned to the nameless spokesman, he claims that the App Store is “designed to be fair and free of bias … We offer thousands of applications using charts, algorithmic recommendations and selected lists selected by experts using objective criteria.” The Verge He also contacted XAI and OpenAI for a comment.
At the time of writing, CHATGPT is mentioned as the best free Apple iPhone application in the USA, and the grok is six. Chinese AI, which briefly managed to take the highest position of the App Store with ChatgPT in January, but they overthrow Musk’s claim that other AI applications would be impossible.
The accusations of interfering with musk are ironic, taking into account the allegations regarding the changes made on X after taking over the company in 2022, then known as Twitter. A research from 2024 suggested that the X algorithm was manipulated to increase posts from Musk’s account. President of OPENAI Sam Altman He answered Musk’s posts, sharing Platformatics report from 2023 This similarly discovered that Musk was built a system of promoting its posts X to the users base of the entire platform. In June, it also turned out that “maximally looking for the truth” Chatbot GroK also consult with Musk’s opinion before he answers controversial questions on topics such as Israel and Palestine, immigration in the USA and abortion.
This is not the first time Musk immersed in Apple and OpenAI. Musk was the early founder of Opennai and earlier aimed at AI startup through lawsuits, and unanimously rejected the purchase of $ 97.4 billion after the problem was a profit -based business. After OPENAI’s cooperation with Apple, in order to integrate CHATGPT with iPhone, iPads and MACS last year, Musk threatened to ban Apple devices in his companies, if OpenAI technology was connected to the Apple operating system.
Update, August 12: APPLE statement has been added to Bloomberg.