Apple pushes back against Musk's xAI lawsuit over OpenAI partnership

Apple has maintained that its decision to choose OpenAI over Musk’s xAI was a fair ￰0￱ a lawsuit filed in August Musk’s AI venture and X ￰1￱ Apple unfairly leaned toward OpenAI arguing it slowed innovation and left consumers with fewer ￰2￱ court papers filed on Tuesday Apple

however countered that its choice of OpenAI doesn’t imply exclusivity as it intends to work with other generative AI partners as ￰3￱ asserts that Apple’s arrangement with OpenAI locks out competitors Elon Musk’s companies are seeking billions of dollars in damages in their lawsuit against Apple arguing that its partnership with OpenAI undermines ￰4￱ claims the arrangement “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing.” He also claimed their collaboration effectively guarantees ChatGPT’s place at the top of the App Store’s rankings

denying other apps the same ￰5￱ has so far dismissed the claims saying the filing fits Musk’s familiar pattern of ￰6￱ is also urging a judge in Fort Worth Texas to throw out the lawsuit

arguing the alleged antitrust claims rest on nothing more than layered ￰7￱ its defense the company’s legal team stated that X ￰8￱ advocating for an “all or nothing” approach to AI partnerships regardless of business or technical considerations an obligation they argued the antitrust law does not ￰9￱ stated

“Of course the antitrust laws do not require that.” Musk accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets In another lawsuit Musk has accused OpenAI of stealing its trade ￰10￱ suit contends OpenAI recruited former xAI employees to gain access to trade secrets linked to Grok especially those with knowledge of their bot’s source code

a move he says tilts the AI playing ￰11￱ accused OpenAI of trying to gain an unfair advantage in the race to develop AI ￰12￱ also claimed that the suspected campaign surfaced while it was examining accusations against ex-employee Xuechen Li charged in another case with passing information to ￰13￱ has not answered the ￰14￱ company also stated that OpenAI hired Jimmy Fraiture a former engineer alongside ￰15￱ complaint also includes a screenshot of an email that Alex Spiro

Musk’s lawyer sent in July accusing a former executive of failing to uphold confidentiality ￰16￱ has however

insisted that they have no “tolerance for any breaches of confidentiality nor any interest in trade secrets from other labs.” Musk’s legal actions against the AI giant are the latest chapter in his bitter dispute with Altman which intensified as ChatGPT creator grew in ￰17￱ one point Musk even sought to block the company’s conversion into a for-profit ￰18￱ had teamed up with Altman to launch OpenAI in 2015

but walked away in 2018 after losing a fight over ￰19￱ then he’s accused Altman of straying from their original mission to serve humanity pointing to the Microsoft partnership as proof that the company now puts profits ￰20￱ and his camp push back saying Musk supported that approach back then and is only taking shots out of frustration ￰21￱ a premium crypto trading community free for 30 days - normally $100/mo.