内容来源：https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-over-alleged-app-store-rigging/

内容总结：

埃隆·马斯克旗下的人工智能公司xAI于本周一向美国法院提起诉讼，指控苹果公司与OpenAI合谋垄断市场，并称苹果应用商店故意降低Grok等ChatGPT竞品的优先级。诉状指出，两大科技巨头通过排他性合作锁定市场份额，压制xAI等创新企业的发展。

目前Grok在苹果应用商店免费生产力应用中排名第三，仅次于ChatGPT和Gmail。该"无审查"聊天机器人已集成至马斯克旗下社交平台X，而X正是应用商店中排名第一的免费新闻类应用。

本案争议焦点在于去年苹果将ChatGPT深度集成至iOS操作系统。xAI认为这实质上剥夺了用户选择权，迫使iPhone用户必须使用ChatGPT完成关键操作。不过苹果系统并未禁止用户使用其他聊天机器人，且苹果未公开声明与OpenAI的合作具有排他性。

OpenAI发言人凯拉·伍德回应称此举是"马斯克持续骚扰模式的一部分"，苹果公司则未立即置评。诉状强调这种合作将导致市场竞争减少、投资创新受抑，最终损害消费者权益。

值得注意的是，马斯克曾是OpenAI创始团队成员，于2018年离开后创立xAI。这已非其首次起诉OpenAI——今年他就曾指控对方违背"造福人类"的创始使命。目前OpenAI正在转型为公益公司，此举对其获得软银数十亿美元投资至关重要。

在近期旧金山的一场晚宴上，当被问及与苹果的合作关系时，OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼拒绝正面回应，仅表示"苹果是我最喜爱的非OpenAI科技公司"。据悉，OpenAI正与前苹果设计总监乔尼·艾夫合作开发人工智能硬件产品，奥尔特曼称其为"新计算范式"。

中文翻译：

埃隆·马斯克旗下的人工智能公司xAI于本周一向苹果公司和OpenAI提起诉讼，指控这两家企业存在垄断行为，并声称苹果在应用商店中刻意降低Grok等ChatGPT竞品的优先级。诉状指出："这是一个关于两大垄断巨头强强联手的故事，它们试图在人工智能这项人类史上最具颠覆性的技术驱动世界飞速发展之际，巩固自身的统治地位。被告苹果与OpenAI通过协同运作锁定市场，既维持垄断格局，又阻挠X和xAI等创新者参与竞争。"

目前Grok在苹果应用商店免费生产力应用中排名第三，仅次于ChatGPT和Gmail。这款"无审查"聊天机器人已集成至马斯克旗下的社交平台X，而X正是应用商店中排名第一的免费新闻类应用。

诉状特别质疑苹果去年将ChatGPT集成至iOS操作系统的行为："这意味着iPhone用户若想在设备上执行关键任务时使用生成式AI聊天机器人，就不得不使用ChatGPT——即便他们更倾向于选择xAI的Grok等更具创新性的产品。"虽然苹果尚未宣布与其他聊天机器人合作，但最初公布与OpenAI合作时并未声明这是独家协议。苹果操作系统本身并不阻止用户使用Grok等聊天机器人。

OpenAI发言人凯拉·伍德在给《连线》杂志的声明中表示："这份最新诉状延续了马斯克先生一贯的骚扰模式。"苹果公司未立即回应置评请求。

xAI声称这种所谓的合谋最终损害了消费者权益："市场受到的这些影响——竞争减弱、竞争所需规模缩减、投资减少、创新停滞——最终将导致产品质量下降、选择范围缩窄、价格攀升，这种局面与不存在被告反竞争行为的平行时空相比，显然对消费者造成伤害。"

马斯克曾是OpenAI创始团队成员，于2018年离开后创立了竞争对手xAI。本刊向xAI新闻邮箱发送的置评请求邮件被系统退回。

本月早些时候在旧金山的一场晚宴上，记者向OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼询问其对OpenAI与苹果关系的看法："或许苹果认为自己在模型领域已无法赶超——毕竟竞争如此激烈。您是否希望成为他们的主要合作伙伴？"奥尔特曼并未直接回答，仅表示："苹果是我最喜爱的非OpenAI科技公司。"目前OpenAI正与苹果前著名设计师乔尼·艾夫合作开发人工智能硬件产品。奥尔特曼在晚宴上称该产品将开创"全新计算范式"，但拒绝透露具体细节。

这并非马斯克首次起诉OpenAI。2024年他曾对这家ChatGPT制造商提起诉讼，指控该公司为追求盈利结构背弃了"开发造福人类的人工智能"的创始使命。虽然OpenAI最初以非营利组织形式成立，但后来为筹资成立了营利性子公司。目前该公司正将该子公司转型为公益公司——这对获得软银数十亿美元投资至关重要。

英文来源：

Elon Musk’s xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, accusing the companies of behaving like monopolies and claiming Apple deprioritized ChatGPT rivals like Grok in the App Store.
“This is a tale of two monopolists joining forces to ensure their continued dominance in a world rapidly driven by the most powerful technology humanity has ever created: artificial intelligence,” the lawsuit alleges. “Working in tandem, Defendants Apple and OpenAI have locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing.”
Grok is currently ranked third in the App Store for free productivity apps—behind only ChatGPT and Gmail. The “uncensored” chatbot is also integrated into Musk’s social platform X, which is the number one free news app in the App Store.
The lawsuit takes particular issue with Apple’s integration of ChatGPT into the iOS operating system last year. “This means that if iPhone users want to use a generative AI chatbot for key tasks on their devices, they have no choice but to use ChatGPT, even if they would prefer to use more innovative and imaginative products like xAI’s Grok,” the lawsuit claims. While Apple has not announced integrations with other chatbots, the OpenAI partnership was not named as an exclusive at launch. Nothing in Apple’s operating system prevents iPhone users from accessing chatbots like Grok.
“This latest filing is consistent with Mr. Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment,” said OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood in a statement to WIRED. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The effect of this alleged collusion is that consumers have less choice, xAI claims. “These effects on the market—less competition, less scale necessary to compete, less investment, and less innovation—ultimately harm consumers through lower quality, less choice, and higher prices than would exist in the but-for world without Defendants’ anticompetitive conduct,” the lawsuit reads.
Musk was a founding member of the OpenAI team before he left in 2018, eventually founding a rival AI firm in the form of xAI. An email to xAI’s press line requesting comment on the lawsuit bounced back.
At a dinner in San Francisco earlier this month, a journalist asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman how he thinks about the relationship between OpenAI and Apple: “Maybe they've decided, look, we're not going to catch up on models—there's enough competition. Is there a place you want to be to be their primary partner?”
Altman didn’t answer the question directly. “Apple's my favorite tech company that is not OpenAI,” he said. OpenAI is currently working with famed former Apple designer Jony Ive on an AI hardware product. Altman said at the dinner the product would be a “new computing paradigm,” though he declined to share details of the project.
This is not the first time Musk has sued OpenAI. In 2024, Musk filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker, alleging the company had abandoned its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity by pursuing a for-profit structure. While the company was originally designed as a nonprofit, it later created a for-profit subsidiary for fundraising purposes. The company is in the process of transitioning that subsidiary to become a public benefit corporation—a move that is critical to OpenAI receiving billions of dollars from SoftBank.