Elon Musk’s xAI has sued Apple and OpenAI alleging a deal between them breaks antitrust rules by thwarting competition in artificial intelligence and opening a new front in the technology billionaire’s feud with the two companies.
Apple struck a major deal with OpenAI last year to integrate ChatGPT into its Siri voice assistant, as well as its writing and camera features, as the tech giant made a big push into AI features on its smart devices.
“As a result of the Apple-OpenAI deal, ChatGPT is not just the default — it is the only generative AI chatbot with a first-party integration into Apple’s smartphones,” xAI said in a lawsuit filed in US federal court on Monday. OpenAI, it says, has been given “exclusive access to billions of potential prompts”.