Musk firms sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging they hurt competition
16 days ago
- #Tech Lawsuit
- #Elon Musk
- #AI Competition
- Elon Musk-backed businesses X and xAI sue Apple and OpenAI for allegedly violating competition law.
- The lawsuit claims Apple's exclusive integration of OpenAI's chatbot into its smartphones harms competition.
- Musk accuses OpenAI of straying from its founding principles and benefiting unfairly from the Apple deal.
- The lawsuit argues the Apple-OpenAI deal gives OpenAI an unfair advantage in the App Store and access to customer data.
- OpenAI controls 80% of the US generative AI chatbot market, while Apple holds 65% of the smartphone market.
- Apple defends its App Store practices as 'fair and free of bias'.
- Apple is reportedly in talks with Google to integrate Gemini chatbot into Siri.