A person has a smartphone displaying the iOS store page for Grok, with the Apple logo visible in the background.
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Elon Musk threatened on Monday Apple With legal action on alleged antitrust violations linked to the rankings of the Grok AI Chatbot application, which belongs to its XAI artificial intelligence startup.
“Apple behaves in a way that makes an IA company impossible in addition to OpenAi to reach No. 1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. XAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk wrote in an article on his social media platform.
Apple did not immediately respond to the request for CNBC comments.
“Why do you refuse to put X or Grok in your ‘must have’ section when X is the application of new n ° 1 in the world and that Grok is # 5 among all the applications? Do you make politics?” Said Musk in another post.
Last year, Apple linked to Openai to integrate chatgpt into its iPhone, iPad, Mac laptop and desktop computer. Musk at that time had said that “if Apple joins Openai at the level of the operating system, Apple devices will be prohibited in my businesses. It is an unacceptable security violation”.
Before his legal threats against Apple, Musk had celebrated Grok exceeding Google as a fifth free application on the App Store. Contacted by CNBC, XAI did not immediately respond to a request for additional information on a potential trial.
CNBC confirmed that Chatgpt was classified n ° 1 in the section of free applications of the American IOS store, and was the only AI Chatbot section in Apple’s “essential applications”. The App Store also presented a link to download the new model of OPENAI Lighthouse, Chatgpt-5 at the top of its “Apps” section.
OPENAI announced GPT-5 on Thursday, its most recent and advanced large-scale AI model, after the release of XAI of its last chatbot, Grok 4, last month.
Musk has a quarrel in progress with Chatgpt Maker Openai, which he co -founded in 2015. The billionaire left his board of directors in 2018, four years after saying that AI was “potentially more dangerous than nukes”.
He now continues the startup supported by Microsoft, and his CEO Sam Altman, alleging that they had abandoned the founding mission of Openai to develop artificial intelligence “in favor of width”.
Robert Keele, who headed XAI’s legal service, announced last week that he had left the business to spend more time with his family. In his announcement, Keele also recognized “the daylight between our world visions” with Musk.
In response to Musk’s antitrust threats against Apple, Openai CEO Sam Altman said in a post X: “This is a remarkable affirmation given what I heard that Elon is doing to manipulate X for the benefit of itself and its own businesses and affects its competitors and people he does not like.”
This is not the first time that Apple has been disputed for antitrust land. In a historic case, the Ministry of Justice continued the company last year to manage a monopoly on the iPhone ecosystem.
In June, a panel of judges also rejected an Apple emergency request to interrupt the modifications of its App Store resulting from a decision that the Company could no longer invoice a commission on payment links within its applications, or tell developers what the links should look like.
– Kif Leswing from CNBC and Lora Kolodny contributed to this story.
