Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.
Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of SpaceX, Tesla, and X, Elon Musk, has threatened legal action against Apple over the absence of his X platform and Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot app from the company’s top recommended list in its App Store.
In a series of posts late Monday on X, Musk accused Apple of sidelining his products despite their popularity. “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your ‘Must Have’ section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know,” he wrote.
Grok is owned by Musk’s AI startup, xAI. The billionaire further alleged that “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action.”