Elon Musk says his AI startup, xAI, will sue Apple for allegedly rigging its App Store to favor competitors—a move he called a clear antitrust violation.

In a series of posts on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk claimed Apple was ensuring OpenAI’s ChatGPT kept the top spot among mobile apps while his own AI model, Grok, languished in sixth place in the U.S.

“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,” Musk wrote, vowing “immediate legal action.”

He also accused the company of political bias. “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…Are you playing politics? What gives?

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