August 13th, Elon.Muskand Sam Altman Clashing online again, the day before yesterday, Musk took to his social media platform X to addressappleissued a threat of "immediate legal action," accusing Apple of monopolistic behavior in the App Store, favoring OpenAI's ChatGPTAnd an injustice to X's Grok chatbot.
"Apple's behavior that prevents any AI company other than OpenAI from topping the App Store is certainly antitrust, and xAI will take immediate legal action." Musk wrote on X, though he didn't provide any evidence to back up his allegations.
Sam Altman was quick to respond to Musk's accusations, writing in his Tuesday night X post, "Given what I've heard about Elon's efforts to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own company, to the detriment of competitors and people he doesn't like, this accusation is amazing." Sam Altman also cited a 2023 report from technology news site Platformer, which describes Musk's massive tweaks to the platform after acquiring Twitter (now X) and 'creating a system that lets you see all of his tweets first'.
Sam Altman said that if Musk does file a lawsuit, he hopes it will spark a 'reverse investigation' and that he and many others are 'very curious to know what really happened'.
The spat continued on Wednesday morning. Musk took to X to accuse Sam Altman, saying, "You're a liar, your nonsense posts have 3 million views, more than many of my posts, even though I have 50 times more followers than you." Sam Altman replied, "Can you sign an affidavit that you never asked X engineers to modify the algorithm to do anything that would harm your competitors or help your own company? If so, I will apologize."