Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple

Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI implicit claims that their woody to physique ChatGPT into the iPhone is stifling contention successful the AI industry. In a suit filed connected Monday, the Musk-owned X Corp. and xAI besides impeach Apple’s Apple Store of “deprioritizing” rival chatbots and “super” apps, including Grok and X.

Musk’s companies assertion that iPhone users “have nary reason” to download third-party AI apps due to the fact that the institution “force[s]” users to usage ChatGPT arsenic their default chatbot app erstwhile enabling Apple Intelligence. “Apple and OpenAI person locked up markets to support their monopolies and forestall innovators similar X and xAI from competing,” the companies allege.

Musk threatened Apple with ineligible enactment earlier this period aft accusing the institution of rigging App Store rankings successful favour of OpenAI. “Apple is behaving successful a mode that makes it intolerable for immoderate AI institution too OpenAI to scope #1 successful the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation,” Musk said astatine the time.

The suit adds that though the X and Grok apps person received precocious rankings, neither appears successful the App Store’s “Must-Have Apps” section, wherever ChatGPT was allegedly the “only” AI chatbot successful the conception connected August 24th, 2025.

X and xAI besides impeach Apple’s concern with OpenAI of creating a “moat” that protects the AI elephantine owed to “Apple’s monopoly successful smartphones.” It notes that the iPhone’s ChatGPT integration gives OpenAI entree to “potentially billions of idiosyncratic prompts originating from hundreds of millions of iPhones,” allegedly giving it an unfair advantage.

“This latest filing is accordant with Mr Musk’s ongoing signifier of harassment,” OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood said successful an emailed connection to The Verge. Apple told Bloomberg earlier this period that its store is “designed to beryllium just and escaped of bias” successful effect to Musk’s claims.