Theo Wayt, Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI for Hurting AI Competition, The Information, August 26, 2025.
Elon Musk’s xAI sued Apple and OpenAI on Monday, accusing the companies of colluding to squash competition in artificial intelligence.
The suit accuses the companies of working together to steer users toward OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the expense of competing chatbots like xAI’s Grok, including through a deal announced last year that integrates ChatGPT into iOS. (Apple is evaluating models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to power the next iteration of Siri, The Information reported in May.) xAI’s lawsuit also claims that Apple has given ChatGPT favorable placement in its app store and “dragged out its App Store app review process” for competitors like Grok. “This is a tale of two monopolists joining forces to ensure their continued dominance in a world rapidly driven by the most powerful technology humanity has ever created,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in the Northern District of Texas.
xAI is asking a federal judge to order the companies to stop engaging in anticompetitive conduct and to pay xAI unspecified monetary damages. Musk, who co-founded and funded OpenAI before having a falling out with co-founder Sam Altman, also filed a separate lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI in California last year, challenging OpenAI’s attempt to convert from a nonprofit to a for-profit company.
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