Elon accuses app store of favoring Open AI

AFP :

Elon Musk has taken his feud against OpenAI to the App Store, accusing Apple of favoring ChatGPT in the digital shop and vowing legal action.

“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,” Musk said in a post on his social network X on Monday, without providing evidence to back his claim.

“xAI will take immediate legal action,” he added, referencing his own artificial intelligence company.

X users responded by pointing out that DeepSeek AI out of China hit the top spot in the App Store early this year, and Perplexity AI recently ranked number one in the App Store in India.
DeepSeek and Perplexity compete with OpenAI and Musk’s startup xAI.

Both OpenAI and xAI released new versions of their AI assistants, ChatGPT and Grok, in the past week.