Elon Musk says that the Xai AI will take immediate legal measures “against Apple for its manipulation of its application store classifications in favor of competing AI applications. In a series of posts X on Monday evening, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing policy” by not placing either X or Xai’s Grok Chatbot in the recommended iOS application list, and that it is, and that it is, and that it is, and that it is It has no choice But to file a lawsuit.
“Apple behaves in a way that makes it impossible for any AI besides OpenAI to reach the first rank in the application store, which is an unambiguous violation to combat monopoly,” He said musk. “Why do you refuse to place either X or Grok in the” You have to have “when X is the 1st news application in the world and Grok is the number 5 between all applications?” He asked Apple in another postAnd that was now installed in his profile.
Musk has not provided any evidence of his allegations, and it is not clear whether he had fulfilled his threats and filed the lawsuit yet.
Apple statement that was reported Bloomberg It is attributed to an unveiled spokesman that the application store is “designed to be fair and free from bias … We show thousands of applications through the algorithm plans and recommendations and the coordinated lists chosen by experts using objective standards.” freedom It also arrived at Xai and Openai to comment.
At the time of this report, Chatgpt was listed as the best Apple free iPhone app in the United States, where Grok was ranked sixth. Deepseek Ai from China for a short period of time to take the best position of the Chatgpt App Store in January, however, Musk’s claim that it would be impossible for other AI applications to do so.
The intervention accusations from Musk are the paradox, given allegations about the amendments made to X after it acquired the company in 2022, known as Twitter. A research study in 2024 indicated that the X was manipulated to enhance the publications from the Musk account. CEO of Openai Sam Altman He responded to Musk sites by sharing a Plastic report from 2023 Likewise, Musk had a system that was designed to promote its partners X to the base of the entire statute user. In June, it was also found that the “searching for the truth” that is looking for the truth “was consulted with Musk’s opinion before providing answers to controversial questions on topics such as Israel and Palestine, American immigration, and abortion.
This is not the first time that Musk has been enhanced by apples and Openai. Musk was an early founder in Openai, and previously targeted the start of artificial intelligence by lawsuits and a purchase of $ 97.4 billion unanimously after showing its axis for being a profit -based company. After Openai’s partnership with Apple to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone, iPads and MACS last year, Musk threatened to ban Apple devices into its companies if Tech Openai is combined with the Apple operating system.
Update, August 12: Add a statement from Apple to Bloomberg.