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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Apple has rejected accusations from Elon Musk that its App Store stifles competiton, insisting it is “designed to be free and fair of bias.”<\/b><\/p>\n

X owner Musk has threatened Apple with legal action after claiming it had made it “impossible” for apps to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in the store<\/p>\n

He also called OpenAI boss Sam Altman a “liar” – after Altman claimed Musk used his platform to “benefit himself and his own companies”.<\/p>\n

The row is the latest flashpoint in what is an ongoing feud between the billionaires who co-founded OpenAI – but now fiercely compete after Musk left the firm.<\/p>\n

Apple announced a partnership with ChatGPT in June 2024 – but there is no suggestion Apple favours one app over the other, and several rival AI apps such as DeepSeek and Perplexity have topped the App Store charts since then.<\/p>\n

In a statement sent, Apple said: “We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.”<\/p>\n

In a later post Musk took aim at Apple again, asking the firm why it would not promote X – or its AI app Grok – in the “Must Have” section of the App Store.<\/p>\n

“X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps,” he said in a post now pinned to his X profile.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT is currently the most downloaded free app in the UK, with Grok a close third. X does not make the top 40.<\/p>\n

This seemed to draw the attention of Altman, who linked to a report by tech newsletter Platformer which claimed Musk had made his own personal X posts more prominent in people’s feeds.<\/p>\n

Bad blood<\/b><\/p>\n

The feud between Musk and Altman has, over time, encompassed a slew of lawsuits, email dumps and social media digs.<\/p>\n

Their rivalry can be traced back a decade, with Musk’s now public belief that OpenAI, under Altman’s leadership, abandoned the principles he and others used to found it in 2015.<\/p>\n

The firm was created with the intention of building artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI that can perform any task that a human being is capable of – but by making its technology open-source and promising to “benefit humanity”.<\/p>\n

What is AI and how does it work?<\/p>\n

OpenAI was also set up as a not-for-profit company, meaning it would not aim to make money, but in 2019 it established a for-profit arm which Musk felt was antithetical to its original mission.<\/p>\n

Musk argued in his March 2024 lawsuit that the firm had instead been focusing on “maximising profits” for its major investor Microsoft.<\/p>\n

And while he unexpectedly dropped his lawsuit last year, OpenAI then filed a counter-suit against him in April.<\/p>\n

It claimed the X owner had engaged “non-stop” in “bad-faith tactics” to try and slow down the company’s AI development.<\/p>\n

OpenAI has also claimed Musk is not motivated by preserving the company’s founding mission – but rather by his “own agenda”.<\/p>\n

And the feud has not stopped at just words and legal action. In February, Musk made a shock move to try and buy the company for $100bn – a bid rejected by OpenAI’s board.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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