OpenAI exploring legal action against Apple
openai retained counsel to send apple a breach-of-contract notice regarding a lack of promised chatgpt subscribers and feature prominence.
openai has retained outside counsel to investigate legal remedies against apple, citing a failure to deliver the subscribers and prominence expected from their june 2024 partnership. while apple integrated chatgpt into siri and visual intelligence, openai claims the implementation resulted in buried features and revenue significantly below projections, with one executive noting the partnership required a leap of faith that did not pay off. apple reportedly holds its own grievances, including concerns over openai's privacy standards and the competitive threat of openai's hardware efforts led by former apple executives. this friction mirrors apple's history of alienating major partners like google, adobe, and spotify, though the iphone maker recently deepened ties with google gemini.