Apple and OpenAI are pushing back against Elon Musk’s xAI, asking a U.S. judge to toss out a lawsuit claiming their collaboration stifles competition.
Musk’s xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, seeks billions in damages, arguing that Apple’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT into iPhones, iPads, and Macs gives ChatGPT an unfair boost over rival apps, including X and Grok.
Apple insists the deal is far from exclusive. Its lawyers highlighted that the partnership is public and that Apple plans to work with other generative AI platforms as well. “There is no monopoly, and no market is being locked,” the filing stated.
OpenAI went further, accusing Musk of waging “lawfare” through repeated lawsuits against the company and ChatGPT. Their lawyers argued xAI has failed to show any concrete harm caused by ChatGPT’s inclusion on Apple devices and that the alleged issues do not meet the threshold for antitrust claims.
This latest legal battle adds another chapter to Musk’s tangled history with OpenAI. He co-founded the organization in 2015 as a nonprofit and is also challenging its conversion to a for-profit entity in federal court.
xAI has not publicly responded to the request for dismissal.
