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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Apple has rejected accusations from Elon Musk that its App Store stifles competiton, insisting it is \u201cdesigned to be free and fair of bias.\u201d<\/p>\n

X owner Musk has threatened Apple with legal action after claiming it had made it \u201cimpossible\u201d for apps to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in the store<\/p>\n

He also called OpenAI boss Sam Altman a \u201cliar\u201d \u2013 after Altman claimed Musk used his platform to \u201cbenefit himself and his own companies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The row is the latest flashpoint in what is an ongoing feud between the billionaires who co-founded OpenAI \u2013 but now fiercely compete after Musk left the firm.<\/p>\n

Apple announced a partnership with ChatGPT in June 2024 \u2013 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: \u201cWe feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a later post Musk took aim at Apple again, asking the firm why it would not promote X \u2013 or its AI app Grok \u2013 in the \u201cMust Have\u201d section of the App Store.<\/p>\n

\u201cX is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps,\u201d 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\u2019s feeds.<\/p>\n

Bad blood<\/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\u2019s now public belief that OpenAI, under Altman\u2019s 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) \u2013 AI that can perform any task that a human being is capable of \u2013 but by making its technology open-source and promising to \u201cbenefit humanity\u201d.<\/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 \u201cmaximising profits\u201d 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 \u201cnon-stop\u201d in \u201cbad-faith tactics\u201d to try and slow down the company\u2019s AI development.<\/p>\n

OpenAI has also claimed Musk is not motivated by preserving the company\u2019s founding mission \u2013 but rather by his \u201cown agenda\u201d.<\/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 \u2013 a bid rejected by OpenAI\u2019s board.<\/p>\n

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