Carrying over his unfounded complaints from earlier this month, billionaire Elon Musk has decided to launch a lawsuit against both Apple and OpenAI, claiming that the partnership between the two companies is stifling the AI industry at large.
The crux of the argument claims that Apple users have no need to download or use any AI tools because ChatGPT is built into Apple Intelligence. Musk alleged this earlier this month and Apple responded by telling Bloomberg that the App Store is designed to be “fair and free of bias.” It should also be noted that Deepseek did manage to dethrone ChatGPT at the top of the free charts in January.
I think it’s also worth pointing out the difference in download numbers as well. Apple doesn’t report download numbers on the App Store, but the Google Play Store does. Presumably, the apps will ahve similar levels of popularity on both platforms. The Play Store says Grok has been downloaded around 50 million times, and ChatGPT has listed 500 million downloads.
So by all metrics, it seems Grok is not a top app on any charts. If Elon wants my input, I think it’s probably a combination of things, but really, the name is awful, and that’s got to play a large part in it. I don’t know why, but saying Grok out loud just feels like a red flag. And that’s not even getting into the racism or weird AI girlfriend stuff.
In a statement to The Verge, OpenAI said that this “lawsuit is consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment.”
Overall, it remains to be seen what happens in court, but I suspect that Apple and OpenAI will be able to shrug this one off fairly easily. What seems the most obvious about this is how far Musk keeps slipping off the deep end. For someone who’s as busy as he should be, worrying about the popularity of his increasingly sexualized AI chatbot’s status next to OpenAI feels extremely elementary.
But that’s par for the course with Elon. I can’t wait to see what he gets up to next week. The only thing left to ask is, “@grok is this true?”
Source: The Verge
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