Overview

• Elon Musk’s companies xAI and X filed a 61-page federal antitrust complaint on Aug. 25 in the Northern District of Texas seeking billions in damages, a permanent injunction, and a jury trial.
• The suit alleges Apple and OpenAI struck an exclusive deal that makes ChatGPT the only generative AI chatbot integrated into iOS and Siri, giving it access to billions of user prompts.
• Plaintiffs claim Apple manipulated App Store rankings and delayed updates to xAI’s Grok while deprioritizing X and other competing chatbot apps.
• OpenAI responded by calling the case consistent with Musk’s “ongoing pattern of harassment,” while Apple had not issued a substantive comment in the reports reviewed.
• To establish market power, the complaint cites Apple’s roughly 65% U.S. smartphone share and OpenAI’s at least 80% share of generative chatbot usage, following Musk’s public threat earlier this month to sue over App Store treatment.