Elon Musk has resolved his antitrust claims against Apple over its 2024 decision to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone features, but he is continuing his separate suit against OpenAI, according to a court filing confirmed Monday.

Musk first criticized the Apple-OpenAI partnership in 2024, calling the integration an agreement to install what he described as "creepy spyware" on users' devices. In 2025, he sued, alleging the partnership gave the two companies a monopoly over Apple users' AI prompts and harmed competition in the smartphone and chatbot markets.

The dispute with Apple escalated after Musk claimed his chatbot, Grok, was being blocked from reaching the top of Apple's App Store rankings. In August 2025, he said Apple was making it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach No. 1, calling it an unequivocal antitrust violation.

In the Monday filing, Musk agreed not to refile the claims against Apple, but he did not drop the same claims against OpenAI. The filing does not disclose whether any settlement terms were negotiated or explain why the claims were voluntarily dismissed.

Musk now plans to argue that OpenAI used the Apple deal—which Apple has said was never exclusive—to monopolize the chatbot market. OpenAI has called the lawsuit an attempt to harass the company as Musk's rival AI firm, xAI, races to catch up. Last fall, OpenAI said Musk's claims were baseless and noted that he would not estimate what share of the chatbot market was foreclosed by the Apple deal; Musk said it could be anywhere from 0 to 55 percent, based on what OpenAI characterized as back-of-the-envelope math that the court should reject.

Source: Ars Technica