Mask’s recent social media “threat” apples claim that the flag artificial intelligence starter XAI will sue apples for bias against artificial intelligence rivals in App Store, suspected of violating antimonopoly laws by manipulating the ranking of Grok AI robots in the app store.
Mask wrote on X, “The Apple’s “black box operation” prevents any artificial intelligence company other than OpenAI from taking the first place in the App Store ranking, which is undoubtedly a monopoly. XAI will take immediate legal action.”
XAI’s AI model Grok is currently ranked sixth in the United States’ iPhone App Store’s Free Applications List, with ChatGPT at the top. And it’s the only AI chat robot in the Apple Imperative. App Store also provided download links to the latest flagship AI model of OpenAI ChatGPT-5 at the top of the application field.
“X is the world’s number one news application, and Grok is number five in its application. Why don’t you put X or Grok in the `Present Applications’ column? Are you in politics? What’s going on?” Mask wrote in a toppost.”
“App Store Content Management for Apple appears to be biased in favour of mature AI like ChatGPT, rather than a challenger for innovation,” the Grok official account stressed in the post that “editor selection may reflect a cautious approach to xAI without filtering, but it discourages competition. It’s more important than politics.”
In June 2024, Apple worked with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its equipment. In response, Mask threatened to ban the use of apple equipment in his company, including X, Tesla and SpaceX. He said at the time: “If apples are integrated into OpenAI at the operating system level, the apple equipment will be disabled by my division. This is an unacceptable security violation.” It’s not clear if he’s saying hi.
This is not the first legal challenge to Apple Store’s operation. In April this year, a United States federal judge in California ruled that Apple had violated the Court ‘ s order to reform App Store to promote good competition in the field of application of downloading and payment methods.
The order originated in a high-profile antimonopoly lawsuit filed by Epic Games, a developer of the Fortnite game of 2021, against the monopoly position of apples in the distribution of iOS applications. At that time, the court found the apple to be a violation of California competition law and ordered the company to allow developers more freedom to direct users to alternative payment options.
In another case in April, the European Commission imposed a fine of 500 million euros (approximately $570 million) on apples because apples limited the use of cheaper options other than App Store to guide users, in violation of the digital competition law. Last month, Apple appealed the fine to the European Court.
