Musk said in an X post that Apple's actions were an "unequivocal antitrust violation."

Elon Musk threatened Apple with a lawsuit – and launched a testy back-and-forth on X with OpenAI’s Sam Altman as he accused the App Store of violating antitrust laws by unfairly favoring ChatGPT over Musk’s Grok chatbot.

Elon Musk has threatened Apple with legal action for what he perceives as overt favoritism towards OpenAI's ChatGPT app in its App Store rankings. In a series of posts on X on Monday, he wrote that Grok, the chatbot created by his own company xAI, was being unfairly penalized by the iPhone -maker.

Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an "unequivocal antitrust violation" by favoring OpenAI in the App Store rankings.

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take legal action against Apple , accusing the iPhone maker of breaching antitrust regulations in managing App Store rankings.

Elon Musk suggested without evidence that Apple blocked AI apps that aren't made by OpenAI from topping the App Store. DeepSeek did it this year.

Elon Musk is taking Apple to task over its lack of promotion of not only X but the Grok app, as well. Musk wondered aloud on social media why the App Store does not have X or the Grok app, which is an artificial intelligence chatbot created by xAI,

Elon Musk has announced plans to sue Apple Inc. over the fact that the iOS version of ChatGPT is the top-ranked app in the App Store. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store,

The billionaire said in posts on X that the consumer tech giant was violating antitrust laws by giving preferential treatment to OpenAI on the App Store.

In October 2022, Elon Musk officially took over X and moved quickly to lay off over 70 percent of the workforce. Former staffers subsequently filed a lawsuit claiming they received only a month of severance pay or, in some cases, no severance at all.