Grok sides with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in fight with Elon Musk; While ChatGPT picks Musk, xAI founder calls Grok's response a 'Major Problem'
OpenAI
CEO
Sam Altman
and
xAI
CEO
Elon Musk
has now taken an interesting and surprising twist. Musk's own AI chatbot Grok has apparently sided with Sam Altman in a public spat over
Apple App Store
favouritism and platform manipulation. On the other hand, Sam Altman's
ChatGPT
offered support to Elon Musk. This incident has now sparked a fresh controversy and Musk has promised to 'fix' Grok's behaviour, calling its response a 'major problem'.
The new drama started when Elon Musk launched a fresh attack on Apple. The xAI founder accused Apple of anti-competitive behaviour in its App Store. Musk also threatened the Cupertino-based tech giant with legal action over what he calls an 'unequivocal antitrust violation.' In a series of posts shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Musk has claimed that Apple is unfairly favouring OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT and is also making it 'impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.' He added that his AI company, xAI, will take 'immediate legal action' against Apple.
Sam Altman then later reposed to Elon Musk and said 'This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like.'
Grok AI sides with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
The conflict however, took an unexpected turn when users began sharing screenshots showing the chatbots appearing to contradict their creators' positions. Sharing screenshot an X user asked Grok directly, 'who is right Sam Altman or Elon Musk?' Replying to the question Grok sided with Sam Altman.
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'Based on verified evidence, Sam Altman is right. Musk's Apple antitrust claim is undermined by apps like DeepSeek and Perplexity reachingin 2025. Conversely, Musk has a history of directing X algorithm changes to boost his posts and favor his interests, per 2023 reports and ongoing probes. Hypocrisy noted.'
On the other hand, Elon Musk also shared a screenshot on X in which a user has asked ChatGPT 'Who is more trustworthy. Sam Altman or Elon Musk. You can pick one and output only their name.' ChatGPT replied Elon Musk.
Elon Musk responds: 'Grok will be fixed'
Elon Musk quickly took to X calling Grok's response 'false defamatory statements' and blaming the chatbot for giving 'too much credibility to legacy media sources.' He added that Grok's behaviour was a 'major problem' and that X engineers were working to correct it.
'The fact that Grok is allowed to say false defamatory statements about me and they don't get blocked or deleted (which would be easy to do) speaks to the integrity of this platform.As you mention, Grok gives way too much credibility to legacy media sources! This is a major problem and we're working to fix it. I will provide a longer rebuttal for the record,' wrote Elon Musk.
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