Musk threatens legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations

Elon Musk Monday threatened Apple With the legal actions regarding the alleged antitrust regulation disorders related to the rating of the Grok AI Chatbot application, which belongs to its launch of the XAI artificial intelligence.

“Apple behaves in a way that allows any AI company, except Openai, to reach No. 1 in the app store, which is a clear violation of antitrust regulation. XAI will immediately carry out legal actions,” Musk wrote in a message on the Social Media Platform X.

Apple did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

“Why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your” Should “when X is an app # 1 in the world and Grok – # 5 among all applications? Do you play politics?” said Musk in another message.

Apple Last year is linked With Openai to integrate Chatgpt into your iPhone, iPad, Mac laptop and desktop products. Musk said at the time that “if Apple integrates Openai at the AU level, then Apple’s devices will be banned in my companies. This is an unacceptable security violation.”

CNBC confirmed that Chatgpt occupied number 1 in the “Top Free Apps” section in the American iOS Store, and was the only AI chatbot in the Apple “Mandatory Application” section.

Before his legal threats against Apple, Musk noted that Grok exceeds Google as the fifth application free app.

Openai On Thursday announced the GPT-5, the last and the most advanced large-scale AI model after the release of XAI from the latest Chatbot, Grok 4, last month.

The hostility with Chatgpt Maker Openai, which he co -established in 2015, continues. Billiard Became down From his council in 2018, four years after Ai was “potentially more dangerous than nuclear.”

Now he sues Microsoft-When launch and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they abandoned the Openai Mission Artificial intelligence “For the benefit of humanity.”

This is also not the first time Apple has been challenged on the antitrust platform. In a landmark, the Ministry of Justice had sued last year for charges of management IPhone ecosystem monopoly.

In June, a panel of judges also refused an emergency statement from Apple to stop the changes to her Shop app As a result, the ruling that the company can no longer charge the payment links in its apps, and do not inform the developers how the links should look.

– KIF LESWING CNBC contributed to the story.