On Monday, Elon Musk’s X Corp (the social community previously recognized at Twitter) and xAI (which makes the Grok AI merchandise) sued each Apple and OpenAI in federal court docket. Each X Corp and xAI are owned by mother or father firm X.AI Holdings Corp, after Musk offered X to X.AI again in March of 2025.
The case was filed within the Northern District court docket of Texas, Fort Value Division, a court docket recognized for being so pleasant to conservatives that some have accused it of making slanted choices in defiance of authorized precedent–it’s a frequent goal of “decide buying” for conservative instances and causes.
The 61-page submitting (PDF) makes a number of claims towards each Apple and OpenAI, accusing the businesses of conspiring collectively to eradicate competitors within the AI trade. It says that AI is “probably the most highly effective expertise humanity has ever created” and says that Apple and OpenAI’s association makes it unimaginable for some other AI firm to compete. Additional, it claims that Apple has “deprioritized” different AI chatbots and “tremendous apps” (like X) within the App Retailer, and dragged out the app assessment course of for these apps.
It calls for a trial by jury (sure, it closes by saying “Plaintiffs hereby demand a trial by jury.”) and seeks a everlasting injunction, financial damages paid, punitive damages paid, with pre- and post-judgement curiosity, and price of authorized charges for the go well with.
On the time of this writing, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app holds the highest slot on the iOS App Retailer’s free apps rankings. Grok is ranked twenty second, whereas X is ranked twenty eighth. Apple beforehand defended the App Retailer algorithm as “truthful and freed from bias,” after Musk known as out the rankings in a publish on X.
The go well with alleges that Apple’s association with OpenAI to built-in ChatGPT into iOS 18 prevents X.AI from competing. When ChatGPT integration was introduced at WWDC in 2024, Apple stated, “we additionally intend so as to add assist for different AI fashions sooner or later.” What that has not occurred but, there are persistent rumors that Google’s Gemini can be added as an AI integration possibility within the coming months.