FORT WORTH — X Corp and SpaceXAI filed a court filing on Monday to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple. X Corp and SpaceXAI are continuing their antitrust claims against OpenAI.

The plaintiffs agreed to never raise the dismissed claims against Apple again. The court filing did not state whether the parties reached a settlement or provide a reason for the voluntary dismissal of claims against Apple.

Elon Musk claimed in August that "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." Apple stated that its agreement with OpenAI was never exclusive. Apple CEO Tim Cook described on-device AI inference as "a competitive weapon." OpenAI stated that Elon Musk would not "hazard a guess" at what portion of the chatbot market is being foreclosed by the OpenAI-Apple deal. OpenAI characterized Elon Musk’s market foreclosure estimate as based on "back-of-the-envelope math" that the court should reject. Elon Musk claimed the portion of the chatbot market foreclosed by the deal could be anywhere from 0 to 55 percent.

In 2024, Elon Musk characterized the Apple-OpenAI partnership as an agreement to let OpenAI install "creepy spyware" on users’ devices. Elon Musk previously sued OpenAI alleging the company abandoned its original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit. OpenAI defeated Elon Musk’s previous lawsuit regarding its mission in May.

Apple filed for accelerated court discovery into OpenAI's unreleased consumer device. Apple requested evidence regarding where allegedly confidential material went at OpenAI, who accessed it, what systems it touched, and whether any of it reached OpenAI's new hardware device. Judge Edward Davila is positioned to decide the scope of discovery before an October 1 injunction hearing. According to macobserver.com, the trial date for the case against OpenAI has been moved to January 11, 2027, and the mediation deadline has been extended to December 4, 2026.

Why It Matters

The dismissal narrows the legal battle to focus exclusively on OpenAI's alleged dominance in the generative AI market. The lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI was filed in August 2025 in United States federal court in Fort Worth, Texas.

App data aggregator SensorTower noted that Grok reached the peak App Store spot on February 18, 2025, and February 19, 2025, after Grok-3 was made free. DeepSeek held the top spot in the App Store in January 2025, and Perplexity held the top spot on July 18, 2025.

Timeline

The lawsuit accused Apple and OpenAI of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act and Texas antitrust law by conspiring to shut rivals out of the generative artificial intelligence market. The complaint alleged that Apple disadvantaged competing AI chatbots by delaying app reviews and manipulating App Store rankings.

The complaint alleged that Apple’s arrangement gave ChatGPT access to billions of potential user prompts through Siri, Apple’s Writing Tools, and the iPhone camera. The trial date for the case against OpenAI has been moved to January 11, 2027, and the mediation deadline has been extended to December 4, 2026.

What's New

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division secured a combined $3,200,000 settlement with OpenAI OpCo LLC and its subsidiary Statsig Inc. for allegedly violating the Immigration and Nationality Act by discriminating against U.S. workers in favor of temporary visa holders during the Permanent Labor Certification process.