Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, has been added as a document custodian in xAI’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here’s what that means.
A bit of background
Last year, Elon Musk accused Apple and OpenAI of working together to prevent competing LLMs from succeeding in the App Store, sparking a lawsuit that now also involves the super app market.
In the lawsuit, xAI (which is now part of SpaceX) claims that Apple’s deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Siri has been influencing App Store rankings.
Apple has repeatedly denied these accusations, taking particular issue with xAI’s characterization that the company’s deal with OpenAI involves exclusivity, which it does not.
