Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI alleging scheme that harmed X, Grok

Elon MuskA lawsuit against xi apple and Openai On Monday, the husband of an “anti -competition” is accused of frustration artificial intelligence Competitors.

The lawsuit filed by Musk Amnesty International Starting xi Its “its social networking business” claims that Apple and Openai “collusion” to maintain monopolies in the smartphone and artificial intelligence markets.

Xi musk acquired X in March in All-Stock.

It accuses Apple of coordinating the so -called “super applications” and the II Chatbot competitors, such as Xai’s Grok, in the applications of the application store, with the preference of Openai by combining Chatgpt Chatbot into Apple Products.

“In a desperate attempt to protect the monopoly of its smartphone, Apple joined the company most of which benefits from inhibiting competition and innovation in artificial intelligence: Openai, a market player in favor of Chatbots of obstetric artificial intelligence,” according to the complaint filed at the American District Court of the Northern Region in Texas.

“This last deposit corresponds to the constant pattern of Mr. Musk from the harassment,” Openai spokesman said in a statement.

Apple representatives did not immediately respond to the comment.

I launched musk xi In 2023, in an attempt to compete with Openai and other pioneering Chatbot makers.

Musk earlier this month threatening To prosecute Apple for “an unambiguous violation to combat monopoly”, saying in a post on X that the company “is behaving in a way that makes it impossible for any company from AI besides OpenAI to reach the first rank in the application store.”

After Musk threatened to sue Apple, the CEO of Openai Sam Altman replied: “This is a wonderful claim given what I heard claim that Elon is manipulating X to benefit from himself and his private companies and harm his competitors and the people who do not like him.”

A Apple spokesman said previously that his application store is designed to be “fair and free of bias”, and that the company is characterized by “thousands of applications” using a variety of signals.

Apple last year partnership With Openai to merge Chatgpt into iPhone, iPad, Mac Captop and desktop products.

Many users responded to the Musk Publishing on X through its community notes that say that the competing chatbot apps such as Deepseek and Perplexity were ranked first in the application store after Apple and Openai announced its partnership.

The case is the latest development in Continuous clash Between musk and altman. Musk participated in the founding of Openai along with Altman in 2015, before leaving the starting start in 2018 due to the differences about Openai’s direction.

Musk prosecution Openai and Altman last year, accusing them of violating the contract by setting commercial interests before its original mission to develop artificial intelligence “in the interest of humanity on a large scale.”