xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Alleged AI Monopoly and App Store Manipulation
Elon Musk's xAI startup filed lawsuits against Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of illegally conspiring to maintain AI monopolies and manipulate App Store rankings, suppressing xAI's products.
Overview
- Elon Musk's xAI startup has initiated lawsuits against Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of illegally conspiring to maintain monopolies in the artificial intelligence sector.
- The lawsuits specifically allege that Apple and OpenAI manipulate App Store rankings to their advantage, aiming to suppress xAI's products on the Apple App Store.
- xAI claims this alleged conspiracy prevents any AI company other than OpenAI from reaching the top spot, thereby hindering fair competition in the AI market.
- Lawsuits were filed in Texas federal court and California, with the latter also targeting OpenAI and its CEO over the company's transition to a for-profit entity.
- Elon Musk's xAI, which acquired X (formerly Twitter) for $33 billion to enhance chatbot training, seeks to challenge these alleged monopolistic practices.
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Analysis
Center-leaning sources cover the antitrust lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's companies against Apple and OpenAI neutrally. They meticulously attribute all allegations to the lawsuit itself, include direct responses from OpenAI, and provide balancing context, such as other AI apps topping charts. This approach ensures a factual and even-handed presentation of the legal dispute.
"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."
ABC News"The lawsuit contends that Apple, realizing it had fallen behind in the arms race of AI, decided to team up with OpenAI."
Deadline"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."
Fortune"Musk's lawsuit alleged that Apple and OpenAI have joined forces to inhibit competition and innovation in AI, ultimately threatening the viability of his own ventures."
ARS Technica"The lawsuit, which was filed in Texas on Monday, argues that the two companies have colluded to make ChatGPT the “only generative AI chatbot that benefits from billions of user prompts originating from hundreds of millions of iPhones."
Gizmodo"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."
Associated Press"Elon Musk’s X and xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, alleging that the two companies are colluding to stifle competition."
TechCrunch"The lawsuit, filed in the US by X and xAI, takes aim at Apple's decision to integrate OpenAI's chatbot into the operating systems of its smartphones, an exclusive arrangement that it says violated competition law."
BBC News"Muskâs social media platform X and his AI startup xAI accused Apple, which has a deal to integrate OpenAIâs chatbot in its products, of deprioritizing competitors in its apps marketplace, even though several ChatGPT rivals have hit the No. 1 spot recently."
Semafor"The lawsuit was filed by xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, and its parent company xAI Corp., which Musk founded and which also owns the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)."
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xAI alleges that Apple and OpenAI conspired illegally to maintain monopolies in the AI sector by manipulating App Store rankings and integrating OpenAI's chatbot into Apple products, thereby suppressing competition from other AI companies like xAI.
The lawsuits have been filed in a Texas federal court and also in California, with the latter lawsuit targeting OpenAI and its CEO over the company's transition to a for-profit entity.
Apple incorporated OpenAI’s chatbot technology, such as ChatGPT, into its iPhone operating system under an exclusive agreement, which effectively blocks users from accessing AI products from competitors including xAI.
xAI is seeking a permanent injunction to stop the alleged anticompetitive scheme and is demanding more than $1 billion in damages.
Apple described the lawsuit as a potentially dangerous precedent for government intervention in technology design, while OpenAI characterized Musk’s lawsuit as part of an ongoing pattern of harassment against them.
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