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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over AI competition, App Store | |
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Story by Reuters | |
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12:00 PM EDT, Mon August 25, 2025 | |
Source: Reuters | |
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup | |
xAI sued Apple () and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in | |
Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart | |
competition for artificial intelligence. | |
Apple and OpenAI have “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies | |
and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing,” the said. | |
The complaint said Apple and OpenAI conspired to suppress xAI’s | |
products, including on the Apple App Store. “If not for its exclusive | |
deal with OpenAI, Apple would have no reason to refrain from more | |
prominently featuring the X app and the Grok app in its App Store,” | |
xAI said. | |
Apple and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment. | |
Earlier this month, Musk Cupertino, California-based Apple, saying in a | |
post on his social media platform X that Apple’s behavior “makes it | |
impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App | |
Store.” | |
Apple’s partnership with OpenAI has integrated its AI platform | |
ChatGPT into iPhones, iPads and Macs. | |
Musk’s xAI X in March for $33 billion to enhance its chatbot training | |
capabilities. Musk also has integrated the Grok chatbot into vehicles | |
made by his electric automobile company Tesla (). | |
Musk’s xAI was launched less than two years ago and competes with | |
Microsoft-backed OpenAI as well as with Chinese startup DeepSeek. | |
Musk is separately suing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman in | |
federal court in California to stop its conversion from a nonprofit to | |
a for-profit business. with Altman in 2015 as a nonprofit. | |
Apple’s App Store practices have been the focus of multiple lawsuits. | |
In one by “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games, a judge ordered | |
Apple to allow greater competition for app payment options. | |
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