埃隆•马斯克本周一针对苹果和OpenAI提起反垄断诉讼，指控iPhone制造商苹果与ChatGPT开发商OpenAI合谋阻碍人工智能领域的公平竞争。
这份向得克萨斯州联邦法院提交的61页诉状，兑现了马斯克两周前发出的威胁。当时，他指控苹果在iPhone应用商店的人工智能应用排名中，不公正地偏袒OpenAI及其ChatGPT。
马斯克此前发帖暗示，苹果操纵系统不利于ChatGPT的竞争对手的发展，包括其旗下xAI开发的聊天机器人Grok。如今，在这份由xAI及其另一家公司X Corp联合提交的诉状中，他详细罗列了大量指控，意在通过诉讼获得经济赔偿，并寻求法院禁令制止这些被指控的非法行为。
这场“双管齐下”的法律攻势将近期接连发生的多起事件串联起来，试图将苹果与OpenAI一年前的合作重新解读为一场遏制竞争的密谋——而这一切正发生在一场或将堪比2007年iPhone发布的技术变革之中。
诉状宣称：“这是两个垄断势力的一次联手，目的是确保它们继续主导这个由人类有史以来最强大技术——人工智能——迅速驱动的世界。”
根据诉状的描述，苹果认为人工智能将对其未来成功构成“生存威胁”，因而促使其与OpenAI合谋，试图保护其长期以来最赚钱的核心产品线iPhone。
部分指控还称，苹果试图阻止那些功能齐全的“超级应用”挑战iPhone的地位，这类应用包括马斯克一直以来计划通过X打造的应用。这些指控在一定程度上呼应了美国司法部去年针对苹果提起的反垄断诉讼。
诉状将OpenAI描绘成对人类构成威胁的存在，指控其在2022年底推出ChatGPT后凭借惊人增长势头扩张业务时，一心逐利，置公众安全于不顾。这一指控与马斯克去年提起的另一宗联邦诉讼如出一辙，当时他指控OpenAI背弃了最初“以非营利研究机构身份运作、服务公共利益”的初衷。
OpenAI已提起反诉，指控马斯克“骚扰”，并在周一对这起反垄断诉讼的回应中再次援引了这一指控。OpenAI在声明中表示：“这起最新诉讼与马斯克持续不断的骚扰行为如出一辙。”
苹果方面未立即回应置评请求。
这起诉讼的核心争议在于苹果的一项决定：当设备内置技术无法满足用户需求时，将ChatGPT作为iPhone上的人工智能“问答引擎”。双方于去年宣布的这项合作，原本是苹果以“后来者”身份加入人工智能竞赛的重要举措，计划主要依靠其自研设备端侧技术驱动，但苹果至今仍未能完全兑现当初的承诺。
诉状指出，苹果自身人工智能技术的短板可能正在推动更多iPhone用户使用ChatGPT，而鉴于这是一项独家合作，OpenAI就能因此获得Grok等其他潜在竞争对手无法获得的宝贵数据。
诉状指控，该合作也促使苹果不当提升了ChatGPT在iPhone应用商店人工智能应用中的排名。自苹果宣布与ChatGPT合作以来，DeepSeek和Perplexity等其他人工智能应用曾多次在全球部分地区的App Store AI应用榜单上登顶。
诉状未提及ChatGPT可能对苹果及iPhone未来市场地位构成的潜在威胁。作为扩张计划的一部分，OpenAI已邀请前苹果设计师乔尼·艾夫（Jony Ive）主导开发一款人工智能设备。许多分析人士认为，这款设备未来可能会对iPhone构成挑战。（*）
译者：刘进龙
审校：汪皓
埃隆•马斯克本周一针对苹果和OpenAI提起反垄断诉讼，指控iPhone制造商苹果与ChatGPT开发商OpenAI合谋阻碍人工智能领域的公平竞争。
这份向得克萨斯州联邦法院提交的61页诉状，兑现了马斯克两周前发出的威胁。当时，他指控苹果在iPhone应用商店的人工智能应用排名中，不公正地偏袒OpenAI及其ChatGPT。
马斯克此前发帖暗示，苹果操纵系统不利于ChatGPT的竞争对手的发展，包括其旗下xAI开发的聊天机器人Grok。如今，在这份由xAI及其另一家公司X Corp联合提交的诉状中，他详细罗列了大量指控，意在通过诉讼获得经济赔偿，并寻求法院禁令制止这些被指控的非法行为。
这场“双管齐下”的法律攻势将近期接连发生的多起事件串联起来，试图将苹果与OpenAI一年前的合作重新解读为一场遏制竞争的密谋——而这一切正发生在一场或将堪比2007年iPhone发布的技术变革之中。
诉状宣称：“这是两个垄断势力的一次联手，目的是确保它们继续主导这个由人类有史以来最强大技术——人工智能——迅速驱动的世界。”
根据诉状的描述，苹果认为人工智能将对其未来成功构成“生存威胁”，因而促使其与OpenAI合谋，试图保护其长期以来最赚钱的核心产品线iPhone。
部分指控还称，苹果试图阻止那些功能齐全的“超级应用”挑战iPhone的地位，这类应用包括马斯克一直以来计划通过X打造的应用。这些指控在一定程度上呼应了美国司法部去年针对苹果提起的反垄断诉讼。
诉状将OpenAI描绘成对人类构成威胁的存在，指控其在2022年底推出ChatGPT后凭借惊人增长势头扩张业务时，一心逐利，置公众安全于不顾。这一指控与马斯克去年提起的另一宗联邦诉讼如出一辙，当时他指控OpenAI背弃了最初“以非营利研究机构身份运作、服务公共利益”的初衷。
OpenAI已提起反诉，指控马斯克“骚扰”，并在周一对这起反垄断诉讼的回应中再次援引了这一指控。OpenAI在声明中表示：“这起最新诉讼与马斯克持续不断的骚扰行为如出一辙。”
苹果方面未立即回应置评请求。
这起诉讼的核心争议在于苹果的一项决定：当设备内置技术无法满足用户需求时，将ChatGPT作为iPhone上的人工智能“问答引擎”。双方于去年宣布的这项合作，原本是苹果以“后来者”身份加入人工智能竞赛的重要举措，计划主要依靠其自研设备端侧技术驱动，但苹果至今仍未能完全兑现当初的承诺。
诉状指出，苹果自身人工智能技术的短板可能正在推动更多iPhone用户使用ChatGPT，而鉴于这是一项独家合作，OpenAI就能因此获得Grok等其他潜在竞争对手无法获得的宝贵数据。
诉状指控，该合作也促使苹果不当提升了ChatGPT在iPhone应用商店人工智能应用中的排名。自苹果宣布与ChatGPT合作以来，DeepSeek和Perplexity等其他人工智能应用曾多次在全球部分地区的App Store AI应用榜单上登顶。
诉状未提及ChatGPT可能对苹果及iPhone未来市场地位构成的潜在威胁。作为扩张计划的一部分，OpenAI已邀请前苹果设计师乔尼·艾夫（Jony Ive）主导开发一款人工智能设备。许多分析人士认为，这款设备未来可能会对iPhone构成挑战。（*）
译者：刘进龙
审校：汪皓
Elon Musk on Monday targeted Apple and OpenAI in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence.
The 61-page complaint filed in Texas federal court follows through on a threat that Musk made two weeks ago when he accused Apple of unfairly favoring OpenAI and ChatGPT in the iPhone’s app store rankings for top AI apps.
Musk’s post insinuated that Apple had rigged the system against ChatGPT competitors such as the Grok chatbot made by his own xAI. Now, he is detailing a litany of grievances in the lawsuit — filed by xAI and another of his corporate entities, X Corp. — in an attempt to win monetary damages and a court order prohibiting the alleged illegal tactics.
The double-barreled legal attack weaves together several recently unfolding narratives to recast a year-old partnership between Apple and OpenAI as a veiled conspiracy to stifle competition during a technological shift that could prove as revolutionary as the 2007 release of the iPhone.
“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 asserts.
The complaint portrays Apple as a company that views AI as an “existential threat” to its future success, prompting it to collude with OpenAI in an attempt to protect the iPhone franchise that has long been its biggest moneymaker.
Some of the allegations accusing Apple of trying to shield the iPhone from do-everything “super apps,” such as the one Musk has long been trying to create with X, echo an antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple last year by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The complaint casts OpenAI as a threat to humanity bent on putting profits before public safety as it tries to build on its phenomenal growth since the late 2022 release of ChatGPT. The depiction mirrors one already being drawn in another federal lawsuit that Musk filed last year, alleging OpenAI had betrayed its founding mission to serve as a nonprofit research lab for the public good.
OpenAI has countered with a lawsuit against Musk accusing him of harassment — an allegation that the company cited in its response to Monday’s antitrust lawsuit. “This latest filing is consistent with Mr. Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment,” OpenAI said in a statement.
Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The crux of the lawsuit revolves around Apple’s decision to use ChatGPT as an AI-powered “answer engine” on the iPhone when the built-in technology on its device couldn’t satisfy user needs. The partnership announced last year was part of Apple’s late entry into the AI race that was supposed to be powered mostly by its own on-device technology, but the company still hasn’t been able to deliver on all its promises.
Apple’s own AI shortcomings may be helping drive more usage of ChatGPT on the iPhone, providing OpenAI with invaluable data that’s unavailable to Grok and other would-be competitors because it’s currently an exclusive partnership.
The alliance has provided Apple with an incentive to improperly elevate ChatGPT in the AI rankings of the iPhone’s app store, the lawsuit alleges. Other AI apps from DeekSeek and Perplexity have periodically reached the top spot in the Apple app store’s AI rankings in at least some parts of the world since Apple announced its deal with ChatGPT.
The lawsuit doesn’t mention the potential threat that ChatGPT could also pose to Apple and the iPhone’s future popularity. As part of its expansion efforts, OpenAI recruited former Apple designer Jony Ive to oversee a project aimed at building an AI-powered device that many analysts believe could eventually mount a challenge to the iPhone.