Elon Musk wants to sue Apple over Grok app store rankings as Sam Altman fires back

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Elon Musk wants to sue Apple over xAI app store rankings

Elon Musk, as is his way, fired off an accusatory tweet Monday night. The target of his ire? Apple.

He posted on X: "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. xAI will take immediate legal action."

Unfortunately for Musk, his own social media site quickly fact-checked his statement. Community notes on his post noted that both Deepseek and Perplexity had hit the top of the App Store charts, even after Apple and OpenAI announced a partnership in 2024.

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Still, Musk kept posting about Apple and his belief that it was tamping down on the popularity of xAI and its signature AI chatbot, Grok.

"Unfortunately, what choice do we have?" he posted on X. "Apple didn’t just put their thumb on the scale, they put their whole body!"

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Musk has not yet provided evidence that Apple has suppressed his apps. As of this writing, ChatGPT is the top app on the Apple App Store charts; Grok is in the fifth spot, lagging behind Threads.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman didn't take the accusation kindly. He quote-tweeted Musk's post and wrote, "This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like."

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The conflict this week between Musk, Altman, and Apple is yet another example of the billionaire men running the world getting into petty, public spats. Remember the Musk, Trump feud? Or Zuck and Musk? Or previous Altman vs. Musk fights?

Still, that's not to say there haven't been controversies and troubles on Apple's end regarding its App Store. Epic Games, for instance, has been locked in a years-long legal battle with Apple over listing its popular game Fortnite in the App Store. The judge in the case actually found in May that Apple violated a court order prohibiting the company from engaging in anti-competitive behavior.

It's not clear if Musk will actually take legal action, but it's interesting to see the tech giants going at one another in a public space.

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