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X Corp., Elon Musk’s social platform, and its artificial intelligence-related entities have officially submitted documents to the federal court in Texas, USA, applying to withdraw the high-profile antitrust lawsuit previously launched against Apple. The lawsuit had accused Apple of giving special preferential treatment to OpenAI in the App Store ecosystem, thus improperly suppressing xAI ecosystem products including Grok.
Musk's entities alleged in the original indictment that Apple's deep integration of OpenAI's ChatGPT into its "Apple Intelligence" ecosystem constituted anti-competitive behavior. In essence, it was blocking the market to maintain its monopoly, thereby crowding out innovative competitors such as X and xAI. The plaintiff also claimed at the time that there was an exclusive collaboration between Apple and OpenAI, and that they deliberately neglected and restricted the exposure of X and its AI application Grok in the distribution and recommendation mechanism of the App Store.
The latest court documents show that some of the charges against Apple have been resolved and dropped. However, court records did not disclose the specific reasons why the two parties agreed to withdraw the lawsuit, nor did they disclose whether Apple had reached some form of settlement agreement with the plaintiff.
It is worth noting that the effect of this withdrawal of the lawsuit is limited to Apple. Sources indicate that Musk and his affiliates still plan to continue to advance legal proceedings against OpenAI for alleged monopoly and unfair competition claims. With the withdrawal of the antitrust lawsuit against Apple, this fierce legal battle over mobile AI ecological dominance and app store distribution rules has temporarily come to an end on the hardware platform side.
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