Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI drop antitrust lawsuit against Apple

The companies had accused Apple of favouring OpenAI’s ChatGPT implicit rival AI chatbots.

Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI person dropped their antitrust suit against Apple, ending a ineligible situation that accused the iPhone shaper of conspiring with OpenAI to unopen rivals retired of the generative artificial quality market.

The companies said successful a tribunal filing connected Monday that they had moved to disregard their claims against Apple. The filing did not springiness a crushed for the determination oregon accidental whether the parties had reached a settlement.

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The lawsuit, filed successful August 2025 successful United States national tribunal successful Fort Worth, Texas, accused Apple and OpenAI of violating US antitrust instrumentality done an statement that made ChatGPT the lone generative AI chatbot integrated into Apple’s iPhone operating system.

X and SpaceXAI, which develops the Grok chatbot, argued that Apple’s statement gave ChatGPT entree to billions of imaginable idiosyncratic prompts done features including Siri, Apple’s Writing Tools and the iPhone camera. They said the woody deprived competing AI companies of entree to users and made it harder for rivals to physique scale.

The companies besides alleged that Apple disadvantaged competing AI chatbots done its App Store, including delaying app reviews and manipulating rankings.

In its complaint, X and SpaceXAI said Apple and OpenAI had efficaciously combined their positions successful the smartphone and AI markets to reenforce each other’s dominance, accusing the defendants of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act and Texas antitrust law.

Apple and OpenAI separately sought to person the suit dismissed past year. US District Judge Mark Pittman rejected some motions successful November, allowing the lawsuit to proceed.

OpenAI accused Musk of waging a “campaign of lawfare” against the institution successful a tribunal filing. Musk has pursued respective ineligible challenges against OpenAI, including a abstracted suit that alleged the institution had abandoned its archetypal ngo to make artificial quality for the payment of humanity alternatively than for profit. OpenAI defeated that lawsuit successful May.

X and SpaceXAI said connected Monday that they would proceed pursuing their claims against OpenAI, which remains a suspect successful the case. They did not explicate wherefore they were abandoning their claims against Apple.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the fastest-growing user exertion successful history in the months pursuing its motorboat successful precocious 2022.