He had promised it, it is now done. Through his XAI company, Elon Musk officially filed a complaint against Apple and Openai, after having accused them of favoritism and anti -competitive practices.
This story started in June 2024, when Tim Cook and Sam Altman companies signed a large -scale partnership. This notably involved the integration of the conversational agent IA Chatgpt into the vocal assistant Siri.
This rapprochement made cries of goldsmith grow in Elon Musk and his collaborators. They claim that this arrangement between tech giants goes much further than was publicly disclosed; under the surface, it would be, according to them, a vast anti -competition operation intended to lock the market. In a tweet which aroused a bitter exchange with Sam Altman, he announced his intention to attack Openai in court.
It is now done following the filing of a complaint in good and due form. “” Two monopolies unite their forces to ensure their domination continues in a world now powered by the most powerful technology ever created by humanity: artificial intelligence », Can we read in the introduction cited by AFP.
More specifically, Musk criticizes Apple toArtificially increase the classification of the Chatgpt application on its app storethe virtual market which serves hundreds of millions of iphones around the world. The aim of this manipulation would be to offer better exposure to your partner. In parallel, the apple would also have deployed significant efforts to curb its competitors … Starting with Grok, the conversational agent of Xai. Also according to Musk, the deployment of the latter’s updates would have been systematically delayed for no valid reason.
In addition to these accusations on the theme of competition, Elon Musk’s company also invokes potential confidentiality problems. The text of the complaint affirms that this agreement would allow Openai to access exclusively to ” billions of user requests ».
Consequently, Musk considers himself eligible for very important financial compensation; his companies claim Several billion dollars in damagesas well as an obligation to end the anti -competitive practices mentioned in the complaint.
Unjustified harassment according to OPENAI
Openai, for its part, says that legal action is completely unfounded and that it is Symptomatic of ” harassment Recurrent of his former co -founder.
It must be said that Elon Musk has not been tender with Openai in recent years: since he left the ship in 2018, because of big strategic differences with the rest of the team, he has multiplied the attacks against the management taken by his former stable. For example, he has already brought another trial to Openai, where he accused the company of having betrayed his original philosophy which consisted in developing this technology for the benefit of humanity.
Will Musk eventually get the case? To find out, it will be necessary to wait for a verdict which will probably not arrive for several months. It will still be interesting to follow the evolution of the file, because it could establish an important precedent in the field of technological competition.
What is certain, however, is that Elon Musk has no intention of letting its rivals dominate this strategic industry without reacting. It can therefore be said without too much risk that these frictions will not disappear anytime soon and that the battle for the domination of the AI will continue to intensify.
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