Elon Musk accused Apple and OpenAI of "thwarting competition and innovation in the generative AI chatbot market" more than a year after the two companies partnered to integrate ChatGPT into Iphone operating systems, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Elon Musk-owned xAI on Monday sued tech giants Apple and OpenAI over an alleged scheme to illegally dominate the artificial intelligence industry through a collaboration that equipped iPhones with AI tools.

Elon Musk threatened to sue Apple for favoring ChatGPT over Grok in the App Store — and now he has. On Monday, Musk's AI company xAI officially filed a lawsuit against Apple as well as ChatGPT creator OpenAI over the two companies' business partnership.