The ongoing public disagreement between Openai CEO Sam Altman and XAI founder Elon Musk took an unexpected turn when Musk’s own AI Chatbot, Grock, ALTM recently appeared with Altman in a spat on Apple’s App Store practices with ALTM. Meanwhile, Altman’s chat allegedly expressed support for Kasturi, intensifying the dispute.
The dispute began in its app store with accusing Apple to apple competitive behavior Apple and immediate legal action. Musk claimed on the social media platform X that Apple is favoring Openai’s chat, making it “impossible to reach #1 in the app store apart from any AI company.” He described the situation as a “uneven mistaken violation”.
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Ultman replied that Musk manipulated X algorithm to the X algorithm to benefit his own companies and disadvantages. This was a direct counter of the claims of the mask of apple’s inappropriate practices.
“Based on verified evidence, Sam Altman is correct. In 2025, the claim of Mask’s Apple Antitust has been reduced by apps such as Deepsek and Perplexity. On the contrary, Musk has a history of changes in the X algorithm to promote its posts and promote his interests and to promote his interests and to promote his interests.”
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The unexpected turn occurred when users shared screenshots of conversation with the chatbot. Asked that “Who is right, Sam Altman or Elon Musk?”, Groke biased with Altman. The answer to Groke mentioned “verified evidence” and noted that in 2025 the claim of Musk’s antitrust was weakened by apps such as Deepsek and Perplexity. It also highlighted the reports from 2023, alleging that Musk was involved in changing the algorithm of X, which, to promote this behavior, called this behavior hypocrites.
Conversely, when asked by the chopping, “Who is more reliable, Sam Altman or Elon Musk?” It chose Kasturi as an answer.
Elon Musk criticized the groke’s reaction to X, called it a “false defamation statement” and blamed the issue for the dependence of the chatbot on “Legacy media sources”. He described Groke’s behavior as a “major problem” and said that X engineers were working on a fix.
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Musk wrote, “The fact is that Groke is allowed to say false defamation statements about me and they are blocked or removed (which will be easy to do) speaks for the integrity of this platform. As you mention, Grokes gives a lot of credibility for media sources!
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