Elon Musk demands Apple and Openai to favor Chatgpt in the App Store

Elon Musk He has opened a new front in his technological war. Your artificial intelligence company, Xaihas filed a claim in the Federal Court of Texas against Apple and Openaiaccusing them of Anticompetitive practices that, he says, they directly harm their chatbot Grok.

The complaint argues that Apple and Openai maintain agreements that distort competition in the AI ​​market by giving preferential visibility to Chatgpt, natively integrated into Apple devices, while They relegate Grok in the Rankings of the App Store. In this sense, Musk says that this alleged alliance prevents its assistant from competing on equal terms, subtracting interactions is valid to improve its software.

A business and personal pulse

The conflict comes at a time of maximum rivalry in the artificial intelligence sector. Grokcharacterized by its irreverent and sarcastic style, it was natively integrated into la red social X (previously Twitter) and achieve a certain traction this summer by offering its most recent version, Grok 4, for free, reaching the Fifth in the App Store. However, he never managed to unseat chatgpt from leadership, something that Musk attributes to a bias in Apple classification systems.

Beyond the legal aspect, the battle also reflects Personal enmity between Musk and Sam Altman, CEO of Openai. Both shared origins in the company founded in 2015, but Musk left in 2018 accusing OpenAi of having diverted to a closed and profitable model. Since then, he has not stopped criticizing Altman, while he has accused him of manipulating the narrative in social networks for his own benefit.

Apple under regulatory magnifying glass

Musk’s demand adds to Regulatory pressures that Apple already faces in the United States and Europe through the center of the App Store. The US Department of Justice presented in 2024 an antitrust demand against the Cupertino company, while Brussels imposed a fine of 500 million euros for hindering developers in their payment systems.

The case inevitably remembers The legal dispute that Apple maintains with Epic GamesCreator of Fortnite, for the conditions of the app store. To prosper the complaint of Xaian investigation on how Apple decides which applications stands out and if there really is a favor treatment towards Openai could be triggered.

For now, what seems safe is that Musk did not miss the courts or their social networks to maintain pressure in this battle, which combines business interests, personal rivalries and the pulse to lead the revolution of artificial intelligence.