Elon Musk goes to war against Apple. For several hours, the American giant has been the objective of several attacks by the billionaire, which accuses him of promoting chatgpt in his application store. Reason why he wants to attack him in court.
“Apple behaves in a way that makes it impossible for any AI company that is not Openai to reach the first place in the App Store, which constitutes an unequivocal violation of antimonopoly laws,” Elon Musk said in his social network, adding that his company IA, XAI, will initiate “legal procedures immediately.”
In X, the billionaire came to accuse Apple of behaving as if it belonged to Openai, because Chatgpt appears in many places in the US application store.
Chatgpt favored in Grok’s detriment
Elon Musk criticizes Apple for promoting Openai’s chatbot to the detriment of him, Grok. This whole story began on the night of Monday, August 11. “Why do you refuse to put X or Grok in your section ‘Applications not to get lost’ when X is the application of news number 1 in the world and that Grok is number 5 among all applications?” Apple asked.
Elon Musk believes that no other chatbot, except Openai, can reach the first place in the App Store classification due to Apple. If Chatgpt has been and is currently at the top of the podium (in the United States and France), it has already been destroyed in the past. At the beginning of the year, its Chinese equivalent, Depseek, put it in the US Application Store.
“A remarkable statement”
If Apple has not reacted to Elon Musk’s provocations, Openai’s head did not expect much to express himself. “This is a remarkable statement given what I heard about Elon’s maneuvers aimed at manipulating X to serve their own interests and those of their businesses, and to damage their competitors and the people who do not like it,” Sam Altman said in X.
The OpenAi chief, who is the enemy of the owner of X, supported his comments by putting a link that refers to an article that explains how “Elon Musk created a special system to show him all his tweets first.” Coming from the American Newsletter Platformer, this article was published in February 2023, when many users complained to see the publications of the Tesla chief in their flow.
“I hope someone will make a contract over this, we already would like to know what is happening. But OpenAi will simply continue to focus on the creation of exceptional products,” concluded Sam Altman.
Obviously, Elon Musk didn’t wait long to answer. “You had 3 million visits about your shit publication, a kind of liar, much more than I have received in many of mine, while I have 50 times more subscribers than you!” He replied.
Source: BFM TV
