Washington – Elon Musk on Monday pointed to Apple and Openai in an antimonopoly demand claiming that the iPhone manufacturer and the Chatgpt manufacturer are joining to frustrate competition in artificial intelligence.
The demand of 61 pages presented in a Federal Court of Texas follows up a threat that Musk made two weeks ago when he accused Apple of unfairly favoring OpenAi and Chatgpt in the classifications of the iPhone application store for the main applications of AI.
Musk’s publication hinted that Apple had manipulated the system against Chatgpt competitors such as the Chatbot Grok created by its own XAI. Now, he is detailing a litany of complaints in the demand, presented by XAI and another of his corporate entities, X Corp., in an attempt to gain monetary damage and a court order that prohibits the alleged illegal tactics.
The legal attack of double canyon between several narratives that are recently developed to reformulate a one -year association between Apple and OpenAi as an evening conspiracy to quell competition during a technological change that could be as revolutionary as the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
“This is a story of two monopolists who unite forces to ensure their continuous domain in a world rapidly driven by the most powerful technology that humanity has ever created: artificial intelligence,” says demand.
The complaint portrays Apple as a company that sees the AI as an ‘existential threat’ for its future success, which drives it to colluded with Openai in an attempt to protect the iPhone franchise that has long been its largest source of income for a long time.
Some of the accusations that accuse Apple of trying to protect the iPhone from the ‘super applications’ that do everything, such as Musk has been trying to create with X, they echo an antimonopoly demand presented against Apple last year by the United States Department of Justice.
The complaint presents Openai as a threat to humanity determined to put public safety earnings while trying to take advantage of its phenomenal growth since the launch of ChatgPT in late 2022. The description reflects one that is already being prepared in another federal demand that Musk presented last year, claiming that Openai had betrayed its founding mission to serve as a non -profit research laboratory for the public good.
Openai has responded with a lawsuit against Musk, accusing him of harassment, an accusation that the company cited in its response to Monday’s antitrust demand. ‘This last presentation is consistent with the continuous pattern of harassment of Mr. Musk,’ Openai said in a statement.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The Quid of the demand revolves around Apple’s decision to use chatgpt as a ‘response engine’ driven by the iPhone when the technology integrated in its device could not meet the user’s needs. The association announced last year was part of Apple’s late entry into the AI race that would be supposed to be mainly driven by its own technology on the device, but the company has not yet been able to fulfill all its promises.
Apple’s own deficiencies may be helping to boost a greater use of chatgpt on the iPhone, providing OpenAi with invaluable data that are not available to Grok and other possible competitors because it is currently an exclusive association.
The Alliance has provided Apple an incentive to unduly elevate Chatgpt in the AI classifications of the iPhone application store, alleges the demand. Other applications of the IA of Deekseek and Perplexity have periodically reached first place in the AI classifications of Apple’s application store in at least some parts of the world since Apple announced its agreement with Chatgpt.
Demand does not mention the potential threat that Chatgpt could also represent for Apple and the future popularity of the iPhone. As part of his expansion efforts, Openai recruited the former Apple designer, Jony Ive, to supervise a project aimed at building a device promoted by AI that many analysts believe that it could eventually represent a challenge for the iPhone.