Washington, Aug. 26 -- Two of Elon Musk's companies on Monday sued Apple and OpenAI, accusing the pair of "perpetrating their anticompetitive scheme" to maintain monopolies in smartphone and generative AI markets.
The lawsuit was filed by Musk's AI startup xAI and social media platform X in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
The complaint noted that in June 2024, Apple and OpenAI announced that Apple would integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into Apple's iPhone operating system. Apple and OpenAI's "exclusive arrangement" has made ChatGPT the only generative AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone.
"This makes it hard for competitors of ChatGPT's generative AI chatbot and super apps powered by generative AI chatbots to scale...