Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI over their deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone users, according to a lawsuit filed (PDF) Monday with the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
The lawsuit was filed by xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, and its parent company xAI Corp., which Musk founded and which also owns the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The main complaint is that Apple doesn't allow iPhone owners to use any other chatbot , like xAI's Grok. Because of this, consumers are locked into using ChatGPT, which gives OpenAI the "benefits from billions of user prompts" that help the company improve its AI and scale its business.
Apple announced ChatGPT integration for iPhone, iPads and MacBooks at its 2024 developers conference . It was an im