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Updates with Sam Altman’s reply
Investing.com-- Elon Musk accused Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store of engaging in anticompetitive behavior, saying his artificial intelligence startup xAI will take “immediate legal action” over what he described as favoritism toward OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
In late Monday posts on social media platform X, Musk said Apple’s practices “make it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation."
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO questioned why X and xAI’s chatbot app Grok were absent from Apple’s “Must Have” section despite being the world’s top news app and the fifth-ranked app overall, respectively.
“Are you playing politics? What gives?” Musk wrote, also alleging that ChatGPT appears “in every list where (Apple has) editorial control.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X, saying, “This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn’t like.”
The dispute adds to growing scrutiny of the App Store’s policies from tech rivals and regulators worldwide.