Overview
- OpenAI filed court papers this week saying the December 2024 ChatGPT extension for Apple Intelligence produced very low use and was described internally as “dramatically” and “persistently underperforming.”
- The company says Apple turned the ChatGPT feature off by default and required a multi‑step opt‑in, which created friction and kept most iPhone owners from using ChatGPT inside Siri.
- OpenAI notes Apple’s privacy terms barred collection of Siri query data, so OpenAI could not train models on that traffic and the hoped‑for ‘halo effect’ of new subscribers never materialized.
- Economics expert Dr. Catherine Tucker calculated that the share of users accessing ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence was negligible, and OpenAI uses that analysis to ask the judge to toss SpaceXAI’s remaining claims before the January 2027 trial.
- Plaintiffs dropped Apple from the suit earlier this month and Apple has since shifted Siri’s core to Google’s Gemini models, a move that reduces the commercial importance of the OpenAI tie‑up and could narrow the dispute’s real‑world impact on consumers and rivals.