Elon Musk feels Apple favors OpenAI over xAI in App Retailer rankings

Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an “unequivocal antitrust violation” by favoring OpenAI within the App Retailer rankings. In a publish on X, he claimed that Apple has made it unattainable for different AI corporations to achieve primary in these rankings and that xAI “will take speedy authorized motion.” Musk did not make clear what he meant by that, and he additionally did not present proof that might show Apple’s supposed antitrust violation.

In an earlier post on X that is at the moment pinned to the highest of his profile, nevertheless, he tagged Apple, asking the corporate why it “[refuses] to place both X or Grok in [its] “Should Have” part. He mentioned X is “the #1 information app on this planet,” whereas Grok is ranked quantity 5 amongst all apps. “Are you taking part in politics? What offers?” he continued. We have requested Apple for a remark, however the firm has but to reply.

In the meantime, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a response to Musk’s accusation on X, calling it a “outstanding declare,” provided that he has heard allegations that Musk manipulates “X to profit himself and his personal corporations and hurt his opponents and folks he would not like.” To notice, Chinese language AI chatbot DeepSeek became the top-rated free app on Apple’s App Retailer again in January, overtaking even ChatGPT.

Whereas Musk did not point out it, Apple has an ongoing partnership with OpenAI. The corporate has built-in ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence to energy cloud-based queries for its platforms. Extra lately, the corporate mentioned that Apple Intelligence will leverage the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26, that are set to reach someday in September.