Elon Musk filed a lawsuit Monday, suing Apple and Open AI for creating an artifical intelligence monopoly.

The tech billionaire owns his own artificial intelligence firm, xAI, and noted in the lawsuit that partnerships like this one prevent competition and innovation.

“Working in tandem, Defendants Apple and OpenAI have locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from
competing,” the lawsuit filed Monday read. “Plaintiffs bring this suit to stop Defendants from perpetrating their anticompetitive scheme and to recover billions in damage.”

Apple has recently partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Apple’s operating system and onto its products, including iPhones, iPads and other devices. The lawsuit also warned that Apple’s partnership is an effort to get ahead of the “existential threat to its business.”

“Apple knows it cannot escape the inevitable—at least not alone,” the lawsuit read. “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.”

Musk has been critical of Apple for not promoting his AI chatbot Grok in its App Store. The lawsuit specified that the tech giant deprioritized competing AI chatbots in the app store and even delayed approval for updates to xAI’s Grok app.

A million reviews with 4.9 average for @Grok and still Apple refuses to mention Grok on any lists https://t.co/9GovpyMiZH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 25, 2025

In a post to his social platform Monday, Musk complained that with a million reviews Apple will still not list his AI chatbot Grok on their rankings lists.

More to come…