Elon Musk Feels Apple Favors Openai Over Xai In App Store Rankings

Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an "unequivocal antitrust violation" by favoring OpenAI successful nan App Store rankings. In a station connected X, he claimed that Apple has made it intolerable for different AI companies to scope number 1 successful those rankings and that xAI "will return contiguous ineligible action." Musk didn't explain what he meant by that, and he besides didn't supply grounds that would beryllium Apple's expected antitrust violation.

In an earlier post connected X that's presently pinned to nan apical of his profile, however, he tagged Apple, asking nan institution why it "[refuses] to put either X aliases Grok successful [its] "Must Have" section. He said X is "the #1 news app successful nan world," while Grok is classed number 5 among each apps. "Are you playing politics? What gives?" he continued. We've asked Apple for a comment, but nan institution has yet to respond.

Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a response to Musk's accusation connected X, calling it a "remarkable claim," fixed that he has heard allegations that Musk manipulates "X to use himself and his ain companies and harm his competitors and group he doesn't like." To note, Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek became nan top-rated free app connected Apple's App Store backmost successful January, overtaking moreover ChatGPT.

While Musk didn't mention it, Apple has an ongoing partnership pinch OpenAI. The institution has integrated ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence to powerfulness cloud-based queries for its platforms. More recently, nan institution said that Apple Intelligence will leverage nan capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 successful iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26, which are group to get sometime successful September.