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Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI about a year ago, accusing Apple of anti-competitive behavior by using its cooperation with OpenAI to make it more difficult for other chatbots like Grok to enter the market. The lawsuit related to ChatGPT's integration with Siri across Apple's devices. Musk also criticized OpenAI for deviating from its original nonprofit orientation and instead acting for profit.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk drops his lawsuit accusing Apple of unfair competition. He dragged the iPhone company and the ChatGPT inventor OpenAI to court over a year ago. Musk's claim at the time: Apple was hindering other chatbots like its Grok software in order to give ChatGPT an advantage.
Now court documents say the allegations against Apple have been cleared up - without details as to exactly how. However, the lawsuit against OpenAI remains. Musk, who was once an early investor in the ChatGPT developer, has been waging a feud against OpenAI boss Sam Altman for years. Among other things, he was accused in court of having illegally converted OpenAI, which was originally set up as a non-profit organization, into a profit-oriented company and of having profited from it. Jurors in California decided in the trial against Musk.
Musk's allegations against Apple were based on a cooperation between the company and OpenAI that was presented in 2024. Users of iPhones and other devices can forward queries that the in-house voice assistant Siri cannot answer to ChatGPT. Shortly before Musk's withdrawal became known, Apple introduced a new version of Siri in the USA, which was improved with the help of artificial intelligence. It was developed by Apple itself - and at the same time Google's AI model Gemini served as the basis for some functions.
Musk accused of monopoly
In his lawsuit, Musk argued that Apple is a monopolist in the smartphone market in the US with a 65 percent share, and OpenAI has a monopoly in AI chatbots with 80 percent. That was his basis for accusing them of anti-competitive behavior. In addition to damages, the aim of the lawsuit was to ban cooperation.
At the time of the lawsuit, Grok was freshly criticized: Musk's chatbot had caused a scandal with anti-Semitic statements and praise for Adolf Hitler. Musk's AI company xAI attributed this to a programming error. Meanwhile, the tech billionaire incorporated xAI into his space company SpaceX.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI is expected to continue over the next few months, with a settlement or verdict possible.
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