Elon Musk suits Apple and OpenAi about the claim that their contract for the construction of chatgpt on the iPhone is stuffy competition in the AI industry. IN Claim filed on MondayXai belonging to musk and XAI also accuse the Apple Apple Store of “Deprioritization” of the Chatbot’s rival and “Super” applications, including Grok and X.
Musk companies say that iPhone users “have no reason” to download the application of other companies, because the company “Strength[s]”Users exploit ChatgPT as the default Chatbot application when turning on Apple Intelligence.” Apple and OpenAI have closed markets to maintain their monoples and prevent the competing of innovators such as X and Xai, “the companies say.
Musk threatened Apple with legal actions at the beginning of this month after the company accused of installing the App Store for Openai. “Apple behaves in a way that prevents any AI company except Openai Achieving number 1 in the App Store, which is an unambiguous violation of the antitrust,” said Musk at that time.
The lawsuit adds that although the X and Grok applications received high rankings, none of them appears in the “Must-Have Apps” section in the App Store, in which ChatgPT was allegedly “the only” Chatbot AI in section 24 August 2025.
X and XAI also accuse the Apple Partnership of OpenAI of creating a “moat” that protects the AI giant because of the “Apple monopoly in smartphones”. He notes that the integration of the iPhone chatgpt gives OpenAI access to “potentially billions of users from hundreds of millions of iPhones”, allegedly giving it an unfair advantage.
“This latest application is in line with the constant pattern of the harassment of Mr. Musk,” said Opeli spokeswoman Kayla Wood We -mail in a statement The Verge. Apple he said Bloomberg At the beginning of this month, that his store is “designed to be fair and free from prejudice” in response to Musk’s claims.