Elon Musk accused Apple of promoting Openai and his artificial intelligence assistant (AI) Chatgpt on the App Store, the company’s application download platform. And he threatens the Californian prosecution firm.
Apple acts so as to make it impossible for any company of AI other than Openai to reach first place on the App Store, which constitutes a manifest violation of competition rules.
His company XAI, which developed the assistant IA GROK, will immediately take legal action
he added.
The App Store allows you to download apps from Apple devices. This platform is crucial for publishers who hope to be chosen by consumers.
It highlights the most popular applications of the moment, in different categories, depending in particular of opinions, notes and the number of downloads.
Apple, which gives little information on its criteria, has not responded to a request for theAFP.
Sam Altman, President and CEO of OpenAI. (Archives photo)
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The accusations of Elon Musk sparked a pass of weapons on X between the bosses of Xai and that of Openai, Sam Altman.
This is a remarkable affirmation given what I heard about Elon who would manipulate X for his own benefit and for that of his businesses as well as to harm his competitors and to the people he does not appreciate.
Sam Altman ment as he breathes
added Elon Musk, qualifying his publication as bullshit
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Under the initial message of Elon Musk, users have also added context notes (the system of combating disinformation on X), citing press articles with titles such as: In January 2025, Deepseek was the number 1 app all categories on the App Store.
Deepseek is a young Chinese company fromIA who made himself known thanks to his assistant IA eponymous.
Elon Musk was part of the team of 11 people who founded Openai in 2015, providing initial funding of $ 45 million.
However, he left the company in 2018 and continues to attack it since the phenomenal success of Chatgpt at the end of 2022.
He has taken legal action against the show of the Silicon Valley Who, according to him, would have betrayed his values. He also proposed to buy it.
Like the other giants of technologies, Apple faces legal proceedings on the part of the American and European competition authorities.
His app store is in particular at the heart of an argument that has been going on for several years with Epic Gamesthe video game editor Fortnite.
According to Epic And other developers, Google and Apple have a duopoly on the market for mobile applications with their iOS and Android mobile operating systems, and abuse their dominant position by imposing their own download and payment platforms, and by taking important commissions on user expenses
An American court estimated at the end of 2021 that Apple could no longer impose on the publishers of applications to go through the App Store and its payment system.
