Aug. 25 (UPI) -- An Elon Musk-owned company on Monday sued OpenAI and tech giant Apple over alleged favoritism in artificial intelligence apps.
The lawsuit filed in a federal north Texas court by X and Musk's xAI, an artificial intelligence startup Musk launched in 2023, accused Apple and OpenAI of an "anticompetitive scheme" and alleged the two companies "colluded" in order to keep a monopoly in the generative AI business markets.
"In a desperate bid to protect its smartphone monopoly, Apple has joined forces with the company that most benefits from inhibiting competition and innovation in AI: OpenAI, a monopolist in the market for generative AI chatbots," according to court records.
Earlier this month, Musk threatened that xAI would "take immediate legal action" over what Musk characterized as an "unequivocal antitrust violation."
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