Elon Musk has accused Apple Inc. and Openai in lawsuits that unfairly endorsed artificial intelligence companies across the iPhone and interfered with competition for other chatbot makers.
Musk's X and Xa filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, alleging that Apple's decision to integrate Openai into the iPhone's operating system is harmful to competition and depriving selected consumers.
The founder of Xai Holdings billionaire, which now houses the Grok AI team and X social network, said Apple is making it impossible for anyone other than Openai's ChatGpt to reach the top of the App Store chart.
The lawsuit sets up a high stakes court showdown between the richest people on the planet and one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Apple and Openai have a partnership built into the latest iPhones as the ChatGpt service is the most downloaded free iPhone app in the US. Musk, 54, has a long-standing feud with Openy CEO Sam Altman, who goes back to the disagreements that led to their split after the two were founded together.
“The exclusive arrangement between Apple and Openai has made ChatGpt the only generation AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone,” a lawyer for Musk's Companies said in the lawsuit, “confining the market to maintain its monopoly and preventing innovators like X and Xai from competing.”
Apple and Openai did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
In recent years, Apple has been entangled with regulators around the world, claiming that the App Store is illegally competing in the market for mobile applications used on smartphones. iPhone makers are also taking part in a five-year legal battle with Fortnite Maker Epic Games Inc. over the App Store dominates the smartphone software market.
The lawsuit follows a post by Musk on August 11th in X, where Apple asked if it was “playing politics” by not highlighting his product. Apple responded in a statement that the App Store is “designed to be fair and unbiased.” Altman suggested that Musk focused on how he manages the X network, responding to Musk's X posts and manipulating them to serve personal interests.
With the support of Peter Brunberg, Mark Garman and Syrin Guffery.
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