Without providing evidence, Tesla’s Elon Musk accuses Apple of favoring OpenAI

Other AI apps have topped the App Store, including Grok.

8/12/25 8:40AM

On Monday night, Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk posted on X saying that Apple is keeping AI companies other than OpenAI from reaching the No. 1 spot in its App Store, calling it “an unequivocal antitrust violation.” Musk provided no proof of wrongdoing by Apple beyond pointing out that Apple has a partnership with OpenAI to use ChatGPT on its AI iPhones.

Other AI apps have previously ranked No. 1 among Top Free Apps on Apple’s US App Store — including xAI’s Grok. Earlier this year, Grok spent several days atop the App Store before being once again bested by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to Appfigures.

Top free App Store Aug 12, 2025 — Sherwood News

ChatGPT is a consumer favorite, with people choosing it over other AI assistants licensed by their companies, while Grok as recently as last month was in the news for praising Hitler. China’s DeepSeek also topped the App Store earlier this year. Both Grok and DeepSeek ranked No. 1 after Apple announced its OpenAI partnership back in 2024. Today, Grok is No. 5 while ChatGPT is No. 1.

Musk has been on a publicity push lately for Grok 4, offering it for free and advertising its image and video-generation tool Grok Imagine.

Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation.

xAI will take immediate legal action.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2025

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Report: Some of Meta’s new AI models will eventually be open-source

Axios reports that Meta is close to releasing its first new AI models after setting up its “superintelligence” team led by former Scale.AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and some of the models will eventually be released with an open-source license.

Per the report, Meta sees an opportunity to focus on consumers, rather than the lucrative enterprise market that both OpenAI and Anthropic have been focusing on.

Meta had previously embraced open-source AI with its Llama models, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing a manifesto declaring open-source AI as “the path forward.” Axios says that Meta will be pursuing more of a hybrid strategy of proprietary and open-source models going forward.

The New York Times previously reported that Meta was delaying the launch of its new AI model because of performance issues.

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OpenAI’s plan for an AGI world: AI for all and a 4-day workweek

The company’s policy paper calls for a new social contract that includes AI at the center of everything, which could lower costs and create cures for diseases, but also warned it may upend the public safety net.

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The median price for a house in San Francisco is now $2.15 million, jumping 18% from last year. The AI startup boom is pushing what was already one of the most expensive housing markets to dizzying new heights. The median price for condos in the city jumped 27% to reach $1.36 million, according to data from Compass, reported by Bloomberg.

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Report: OpenAI on track to burn $85 billion in 2028, expects profitability by 2030

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to go public this year, and all eyes are on how long they can sustain burning billions in cash before they achieve something that looks like a viable business.

Investors have seen both companies’ projections, and there’s no sign of slowing down, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

OpenAI expects to burn tens of billions per year for the rest of the decade, peaking at $85 billion in 2028, before achieving profitability in 2030, per the report.

Anthropic will also continue to burn cash for years — far less than OpenAI — but it projects that 2026 will be its biggest year of losses. It targets 2029 for profitability, fueled by exploding enterprise revenue.

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OpenAI expects to burn tens of billions per year for the rest of the decade, peaking at $85 billion in 2028, before achieving profitability in 2030, per the report.