Apple is attempting to get a judge to toss an xAI lawsuit that accuses Cupertino of anti-competitive favoritism on its App Store charts.

In August, xAI's Elon Musk said Apple's partnership with OpenAI meant rivals (like xAI's Grok) were unable to knock the ChatGPT app from top spot on the iPhone charts. Apple denied it, but xAI sued. Now, Apple’s lawyers say in a new court filing that it did nothing wrong, Bloomberg reports.

The lawyers say that xAI's lawsuit suggests Apple would have to partner with "every other generative AI chatbot – regardless of quality, privacy or safety considerations, technical feasibility, stage of development, or commercial terms." The motion to dismiss also says the antitrust injuries cited by xAI are based on “speculation on top of speculation.”

Elsewhere in the motion, Apple's lawyers say it’s "widely known that Apple intends to partner with other generative AI chatbots" away from OpenAI. This likely refers to rumors of the brand partnering with Google’s Gemini tools to help power the future of Siri.

The lawsuit began when Musk accused Apple of stifling competition in its App Store. He said on X that Apple was “behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.” (DeepSeek briefly took the top spot in Apple's App Store when it launched in January 2025.)

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Soon after Musk's comments, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hit back, saying, “This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like.”

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