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Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over AI competition, App Store rankings
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 25, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 25, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging they conspire to limit AI competition, impacting App Store rankings.
By Mike Scarcella
(Reuters) -Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence.
Musk earlier this month had threatened to sue Cupertino, California-based Apple, saying in a post on his social media platform X that "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.”
(Reporting by Mike Scarcella; )
xAI is suing Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of illegally conspiring to limit competition in the AI space.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court in Texas.
Musk claimed that Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI startup to succeed.
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, is the founder of xAI.
Musk expressed his concerns about Apple on his social media platform, X.
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