Elon Musk has said he plans to take “immediate legal action” against Apple after accusing the tech giant of favouring OpenAI ’s ChatGPT over his own artificial intelligence startup xAI.

The SpaceX, Tesla and X boss claimed that the iPhone maker is violating antitrust rules through its App Store following a deal with OpenAI.

“Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your ‘Must Have’ section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps?” he wrote in a post to X on Monday. “Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.”

In a follow-up post he wrote: “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,”

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