Apple asks judge to toss Musk’s lawsuit over ChatGPT on iPhone

Apple has deed backmost astatine Elon Musk implicit his claims its concern with OpenAI to physique ChatGPT straight into the iPhone is stunting AI manufacture competition. In tribunal documents filed connected Tuesday and seen by Bloomberg, Apple’s lawyers asked a national justice to disregard a suit filed by Musk’s companies xAI and X Corp, decrying claims they person been harmed arsenic “speculation connected apical of speculation.” 

In August, Musk’s companies filed a suit accusing Apple of rigging App Store rankings against chatbots and apps competing with OpenAI, including Grok and X. Apple’s lawyers said Musk’s AI and societal media companies had done thing to “plausibly” basal up their allegations, explaining that the statement with OpenAI is “expressly not exclusive.” 

In immoderate instance, Apple’s lawyers said it is besides “widely known that Apple intends to spouse with different generative AI chatbots,” adding that contention instrumentality does not necessitate it to simultaneously spouse “with each different generative AI chatbot” connected the market, careless of quality.