Musk said Apple makes it impossible for anyone other than OpenAI to reach the top of the App Store charts, a sought-after global spotlight for app developers
Elon Musk lashed out against Apple Inc.’s app store practices late on Monday, accusing the iPhone maker of favouring OpenAI.
The billionaire founder of xAI Holdings, which now houses the Grok artificial intelligence team and X social network, said Apple makes it impossible for anyone other than OpenAI to reach the top of the App Store charts, a sought-after global spotlight for app developers.
In a post on his X account, Musk asked if Apple is “playing politics” by not highlighting his products.
His comments mark the biggest fight that Musk has picked since his confrontation with US President Donald Trump in June, when each person posted disparaging remarks about the other on his own social network.
Musk added that xAI will take legal action against what he deemed an antitrust violation. Apple and OpenAI — whose ChatGPT is the most-downloaded free iPhone app in the US, ahead of Grok at No. 5 — have a partnership around AI built into the latest iPhones.
Last year, Apple partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iPhones, iPads and Macs. At the time, Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies if OpenAI was embedded at the operating system level, calling it a “security violation.”
Musk has a long-running feud with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, which dates back to disagreements that led to their split after the two founded OpenAI together.
Altman responded to the Monday claims of impropriety by turning the focus to how Musk manages the X network, suggesting he manipulates it to serve his personal interests.
But OpenAI will just stay focused on making great products, Altman added in his post on X.
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