Elon Musk's companies xAI and X Corp. filed a 61-page antitrust complaint in Texas accusing Apple and OpenAI of collaborating to thwart AI competition. The complaint alleges Apple favored OpenAI and ChatGPT in iPhone app store rankings and rigged the system against rivals like Grok. The filing seeks monetary damages and court orders to stop the alleged illegal tactics. The complaint frames a year-old Apple–OpenAI partnership as a conspiracy to protect the iPhone franchise by blocking do-everything "super apps." The suit also portrays OpenAI as prioritizing profit over public safety amid rapid AI growth.
The double-barreled legal attack weaves together several recently unfolding narratives to recast a year-old partnership between Apple and OpenAI as a veiled conspiracy to stifle competition during a technological shift that could prove as revolutionary as the 2007 release of the iPhone. "This is a tale of two monopolists joining forces to ensure their continued dominance in a world rapidly driven by the most powerful technology humanity has ever created: artificial intelligence," the lawsuit asserts.
The complaint portrays Apple as a company that views AI as an "existential threat" to its future success, prompting it to collude with OpenAI in an attempt to protect the iPhone franchise that has long been its biggest moneymaker. Some of the allegations accusing Apple of trying to shield the iPhone from do-everything "super apps," such as the one Musk has long been trying to create with X, echo an antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple last year by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The 61-page complaint filed in Texas federal court follows through on a threat that Musk made two weeks ago when he accused Apple of unfairly favoring OpenAI and ChatGPT in the iPhone's app store rankings for top AI apps. Musk's post insinuated that Apple had rigged the system against ChatGPT competitors such as the Grok chatbot made by his own xAI. Now, he is detailing a litany of grievances in the lawsuit - filed by xAI and another of his corporate entities, X Corp.-in an attempt to win monetary damages and a court order prohibiting the alleged illegal tactics.
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