Billionaire Elon Musk has said his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take legal action against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of breaching antitrust regulations in managing App Store rankings.
“Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk said in a post on his social media platform X.
Apple has a partnership with OpenAI that integrates ChatGPT into iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Musk did not provide evidence to support his claim. Apple, OpenAI, and xAI did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said: “This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn’t like,” he said on X.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT currently holds the top spot in the App Store’s ‘Top Free Apps’ section in the US, while xAI’s Grok ranks fifth.
“Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your ‘Must Have’ section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics?,” Musk said in an earlier post on Monday.
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