Elon Musk made a harsh claim about Apple. Musk suggested that the company provided an unfair advantage to OpenAI in artificial intelligence applications in the App Store. Describing this situation as a “open antitröst violation”, Musk explained that they would initiate legal process on behalf of XAI. Following the statement, the debate in the world of technology flared up again.
XAI attracted attention with Gok 4, which he introduced last month. The company promised significant performance gains in the new large language model compared to previous versions. In addition, Gok Imagine, the name of the visual and video production tool with the personalizable chat boots to the users brought together. These moves rapidly increased the popularity of the application.
Elon Musk blames Apple of preventing other artificial intelligence companies from reaching the summit.
According to the App Figures data, Gok rose to the 29th place in the App Store general ranking in a short time. This output has gained faster recent days. The XAI has brought Gok 4 to free use worldwide to the fifth level. In the productivity category, it ranked second.
However, OpenAI’s Chatgpt application is still at the top. In the last year, Apple has frequently highlighted Chatgpt in the Editorial content of the App Store. In addition, the new feature package called Apple Intelligence was cooperated with OpenAI. This package integrates Chatgpt into Siri and provides direct support to the Writing Tools.
Musk argued that Apple prevented other artificial intelligence companies from reaching the summit in his sharing on the X platform. “Apple does not allow any artificial intelligence company except OpenAI to be number one in the App Store. This is an undisputed antitröst violation.” He said. This message was interpreted as a sign that Musk would take a harsh legal step against Apple.
Musk’s history makes this claim even more remarkable. Musk, one of the founders of OpenAI, left the company early. More recently, he filed a lawsuit to prevent OpenAI from the transition to a profit. It is known that this case is still continuing.
On the other hand, Musk is directly competing with OpenAI with XAI. Musk, who tries to make room for himself in the artificial intelligence market with the Gok brand, thinks that Apple’s platform strengthens the leadership of OpenAI. However, although there are similar threats in the past, there are examples that they have not realized them.
The close cooperation between Apple and OpenAI has fueled the discussions of competition in the technology sector. Apple is known to have the power to influence the visibility of applications with algorithms and editorial preferences in the App Store. However, the fact that such claims can gain legal dimension requires concrete evidence.
Musk’s output brought not only the XAI -OPENAI competition, but also the intervention of the market dynamics of major technology companies. In addition to all these, it is a question of whether XAI will really sue and how Apple will respond to it in the coming days.