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Elon Musk wants to attack Apple in justice and attacked the boss of Open AI.
Elon Musk – A legal action and bickering on X. Tuesday August 12, Elon Musk accused Apple of promoting Openai and his artificial intelligence assistant Chatgpt on the App Store, its application download platform, and threatened the Californian prosecution firm. This did not fail to provoke the anger of Sam Altman, CEO of the company behind the famous chatbot.
“Apple acts in order to make it impossible for any company of AI other than Optai to reach first place on the App Store, which constitutes a manifest violation of the competition rules”said the billionaire on his social network XAI, his IA company who developed the Assistant IA Grok, “Will immediately initiate legal action”he added.
The App Store allows you to download applications on iPhones and other appliances of the apple brand. 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. With Bloomberg, Apple denies any favoritism. The app store is ” Designed to be fair and impartial “Said a brand spokesperson.
Under Musk’s message on X, users have added context notes (the system for combating disinformation on the social network), 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 Chinese IA start-up which became known this year thanks to the popularity of its eponymous AI assistant.
Clash with Sam Altman
In return, Sam Altman, the boss of Open AI did not hesitate to respond to the billionaire. “” This is a remarkable affirmation given that I heard that Elon manipulates X for his own benefit, that of his businesses, and to harm his competitors and the people he does not like “, He said on X. facts that have already been proven in February 2023 by Platformer.
Unhappy, Elon Musk added a layer under the post of Altman: ” You had 3 million views on your post bogus, a kind of liar, much more than what I have received in many mine, while I have 50 times more subscribers than you! Shortly after, Tesla’s boss put online a screenshot where he asks Chatgpt who is most trustworthy between him and Sam Altman. In the photo, the AI does not choose its boss but … Elon Musk.
Elon Musk was part of the team of 11 people who founded Openai in 2015, providing initial funding of $ 45 million. But he left the company in 2018 and continues to attack it since the phenomenal success of Chatgpt at the end of 2022. He undertook legal action against the star of Silicon Valley who, according to him, betrayed his values, and also proposed to buy it.
Regarding Apple, the company, like the other giants of technologies, faces legal proceedings on the part of the American and European competition authorities. His app store is, for example, at the heart of an argument that has been going on for several years with Epic Games, the publisher of the Fortnite video game. An American court said 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.
