Tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused Apple of acting like a monopoly by manipulating its App Store rankings, threatening legal action in response, according to CNBC. Musk claimed that Apple's practices unfairly disfavor AI apps made by companies other than OpenAI,

Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence start up xAI will sue Apple for allegedly favoring AI competitors in its App Store in what he called a breach of antitrust regulations.

At the time of writing, ChatGPT is listed as Apple’s top free iPhone app in the US, with Grok ranked as the sixth. China’s DeepSeek AI briefly managed to take the top App Store position from ChatGPT in January, however, disproving Musk’s claim that it would be impossible for other AI apps to do so.