Elon Musk, owner of billionaires SpaceX, Tesla and X, says he plans to su Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot apps in the App Store’s top recommended apps.
Musk posted a comment to X late Monday, saying, “Do you refuse to put either the Hey @Apple App Store, X or Grok in the “required” section?
Grok is owned by Musk’s artificial intelligence startup Xai.
Musk continues, “Apple is acting in a way that makes it impossible for non-Openai AI companies to reach #1 on the App Store.
He gave no further details.
There were no immediate comments from Apple. This has faced a variety of allegations of antitrust violations in recent years.
A federal judge recently discovered that Apple was violating a court injunction in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite Maker Epic Games.
European Union regulators in 27 countries fined Apple 500 million euros in April to break competition rules by preventing app makers from pointing cheaper options to users outside the app store.
Last year, the EU fined nearly $2 billion on the US tech giant for unfairly endorsing its own music streaming service by banning rivals like Spotify from telling users how to pay for cheaper subscriptions other than the iPhone app.
Earlier on Tuesday, the top apps in Apple’s app store were Tiktok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble. Open AI’s ChatGpt ranked 7th.
Original issue: August 12, 2025, 12:20pm EDT
